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Coronavirus vaccine: European Union citizens receive their jabs
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Israel's vaccination programme has been praised as the country begins to open up. About 40 percent of the country's population has been vaccinated, contrasting greatly with the rollout in the EU. Germany and France have fully inoculated around three percent of their population as Europe continues to struggle with the rollout. Austria and Denmark appear to have lost patience due to the delay, as Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz indicated last week. He said: “We must prepare for further mutations and should no longer be dependent solely on the EU in the production of second-generation vaccines."