7:45 am: It’s D-Day. The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 opens this Sunday in France. The vaccine developed by the American Pfizer and the German BioNTech arrived on French soil on Saturday, and will be injected into elderly volunteers in two establishments in Seine-Saint-Denis and Côte-d’Or. A total of 3,900 first vials were received by AP-HP on Saturday. Three bottles were delivered by courier on Saturday to the René-Muret hospital in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis), where the vaccination began this Sunday morning, to a few elderly people and a volunteer caregiver. Six other bottles of the same stock were sent to the geriatric center of Champmaillot depending on the CHU of Dijon, the second place of the symbolic launch of the French vaccination campaign.
06h58: Germany, Hungary and Slovakia began to vaccinate their populations against the coronavirus on Saturday, on the eve of the launch of vaccination campaigns in most other EU member states, which gave the green light on December 21 to the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine. The first dose administered on German territory was to Edith Kwoizalla, a 101-year-old resident of a retirement home in the Sachsen-Anhalt (east) region. In Hungary, Arienne Kertesz, a female doctor at the South Pest hospital in the capital Budapest, led the way. “I have been waiting a long time to have it, because my ability to work calmly and safely depends on it,” she said.
And it is an infectious disease specialist, Vladimir Krcmery, who was the first to be vaccinated in Slovakia, in Nitra (west).
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