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ROME (Reuters) - Almost 10 months after the first Italian patient tested positive for the new coronavirus, Italy on Sunday vaccinated the first residents against COVID-19.
Three health workers at the Rome Spallanzani hospital were inoculated shortly before 0700 GMT with the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, a statement by the commissioner for the epidemic Domenico Arcuri said.
“The vaccine went very well and it was an exciting, historical moment,” 29-year-old nurse Claudia Alivernini told state-owned television RAINEWS24.
“It is the beginning of the end and I hope to be the first of over 60 millions of Italians”.
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MADRID/ROME (Reuters) - Europe launched a mass COVID-19 vaccination drive on Sunday with pensioners and medics lining up to get the first shots to see off a 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 have a vaccine at her care home in Guadalajara, near the capital Madrid.
“Let’s see if we can make this virus go away.”
In Italy, the first country in Europe to record significant numbers of infections, 29-year-old nurse Claudia Alivernini was one of three medical staff at the head of the queue for the shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
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Italy kicks off vaccinations against COVID-19 in Rome Health Reuters Staff ROME (Reuters) - Almost 10 months after the first Italian patient tested positive for the new coronavirus, Italy on Sunday vaccinated the first residents against COVID-19.
Claudia Alivernini, one of the first recipients of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Italy, receives her vaccination at the Spallanzani hospital in this screengrab taken from a video, in Rome, Italy December 27, 2020. Ministero della Salute/Handout via REUTERS
Nurse Claudia Alivernini speaks next to Health Minister Roberto Speranza during a news conference after receiving a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the country begins vaccinations, at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome, Italy, December 27, 2020. REUTERS/Remo Casilli