First Fleming (96) receives vaccine: ‘I feel 30 years younger’ | Abroad

Hermans will receive his second injection in 21 days. The vaccination was filmed and broadcast live via Belgian media. There was also a handful of photographers behind the window. After the vaccination, Hermans was given a bunch of red roses.

People are also vaccinated from 11 am in residential care centers in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (Brussels) and Mons (Wallonia).

96-year-old Hermans said in advance that he was ready. Afterwards he felt fine. “It feels like an angel peeing on my tongue. I feel thirty years younger. It didn’t hurt at all. ” The Belgian hopes that all his compatriots will be vaccinated. “Then we will be free again and I can see my children and grandchild again.”

In Belgium, 450 people will be vaccinated against the corona virus on Monday. The vaccinations take place in three nursing homes. Most people are vaccinated in their own room.

Belgium was one of the last EU countries to start vaccinating against the corona virus on Monday. Luxembourg and Latvia will also start vaccinating on Monday.

Only Ireland and the Netherlands start vaccinating later within the European Union. Ireland will start on Tuesday and the Netherlands on January 8, more than a week and a half after the rest of the EU.

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