Residents of a Madrid nursing home
got their second shot of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday and some began planning their first trip outside in months. I feel divine and delighted to be able to live a more normal life with everybody thanks to my defences, said Rosario Martin-Sanz, 99.
She was the first resident of the
Ballesol Parque Almansa home to get her second COVID shot a week ago, while others were being vaccinated on Monday.
Another resident, Maria Asuncion Ojeda, said she had woken up with the thought that
seven days had passed since she received the second dose: So now I m immune .
By Reuters Staff
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MADRID (Reuters) - Residents of a Madrid nursing home got their second shot of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday and some began planning their first trip outside in months.
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“I feel divine and delighted to be able to live a more normal life with everybody thanks to my defences,” said Rosario Martin-Sanz, 99.
She was the first resident of the Ballesol Parque Almansa home to get her second COVID shot a week ago, while others were being vaccinated on Monday.
Another resident, Maria Asuncion Ojeda, said she had woken up with the thought that seven days had passed since she received the second dose: “So now I’m immune”.
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BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The EU’s campaign to vaccinate Europeans against COVID-19 has got off to an uneven start in what will be a marathon effort to administer shots to enough of the bloc’s 450 million people to defeat the viral pandemic.
Health workers speak with Mauricette, a 78-year-old French woman, after she received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in the country, at the Rene-Muret hospital in Sevran, on the outskirts of Paris, France, December 27, 2020. Thomas Samson/Pool via REUTERS
In one mishap, eight workers at a care home in Stralsund on the north German coast were injected with five times the recommended dose of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. Four were hospitalised.
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BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT, Dec 28 (Reuters) - The EU’s campaign to vaccinate Europeans against COVID-19 has got off to an uneven start in what will be a marathon effort to administer shots to enough of the bloc’s 450 million people to defeat the viral pandemic.
In one mishap, eight workers at a care home in Stralsund on the north German coast were injected with five times the recommended dose of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. Four were hospitalised.
“I deeply regret the incident. This individual case is due to individual errors. I hope that all those affected do not experience any serious side effects,” district chief Stefan Kerth said on Monday.