Isla Binnie and Giselda Vagnoni > By Isla Binnie and Giselda Vagnoni - 27 December 2020 - 15:36 The region of 450 million people has secured contracts with a range of suppliers for more than two billion vaccine doses and has set a goal for all adults to be inoculated during 2021. Image: REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini Europe launched a massive vaccination drive on Sunday with pensioners and medics lining up to take the first shots to see off the Covid-19 pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives worldwide.
“Thank God,” 96-year-old Araceli Hidalgo said as she became the first person in Spain to get a vaccine. She told staff at her care home in Guadalajara near Madrid she hadn t felt a thing. “Let s see if we can make this virus go away.”
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