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Greece’s first vaccinations against the coronavirus (Covid-19) were performed in reference hospitals of Attica on Sunday, in accordance with the Greek government’s vaccination operation dubbed
“Eleftheria”.
The country’s vaccinations were in line with the EU Vaccination Days, which sees the first Europeans being vaccinated on the same days (December 27, 28 and 29).
European Commission President
Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday tweeted:
“Today the first Europeans are getting vaccinated against COVID-19. I’m touched to see people taking the vaccine everywhere across the EU. From Madrid to Paris, Athens to Riga. First we protect the more vulnerable. Soon we’ll have enough doses for all of us.”
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The Greek President and the Prime Minister also received the much anticipated jab Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, right, receives an injection with a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, at the Attikon University Hospital in Athens. Photo: AAP via AP/Kostas Tsironis
28 December 2020 2:55pm
Vaccination against Covid-19 has officially began in Greece with two citizens and several authority figures receiving the first jabs. Doctors, nurses and the elderly rolled up their sleeves across the European Union to try the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine on Sunday in a symbolic show of unity against the worst health care crisis in a century.
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