European Union nations have kicked off a coordinated effort to give COVID-19 vaccinations to adults among their 450 million citizens, marking a moment of hope on the continent.
Meanwhile, fears grow over a new variant of the coronavirus that is spreading across the United Kingdom with Japan barring on Sunday the entry of all non-resident foreign nationals as a precaution against the strain.
Thailand, meanwhile, is scrambling to contain a COVID outbreak connected to a seafood market in a southern province, and residents of Sydney – Australia’s largest city – are awaiting word on whether any public New Year’s Eve celebrations will be allowed.
Here are the latest updates:
A 96-year-old is first Spaniard vaccinated for COVID-19
Araceli Hidalgo became the first person to be vaccinated in central Spain, in an event broadcast by national television.
She felt “nothing” from the shot, Hidalgo said with a smile after being injected.
With her short white hair, the pensioner living in the Los Olmos retirement home in Guadalajara got up slowly after pulling on her black jacket and walked off using a frame for support.
Los Olmos nursing home resident Araceli, 96, receives the first injection nationwide in Spain [Reuters]Woman at care home first to get vaccination in Sweden
Gun-Britt Johnsson has been the first person in Sweden to be vaccinated with the vaccine jointly developed by BioNTech and US pharma Pfizer.
The 91-year-old lives at a nursing home in Mjolby, 230 kilometres south-west of Stockholm.
“I didn’t feel anything,” she said after the jab, which was broadcast by public broadcaster SVT.
Nurse Ann-Louise Broberg injects the coronavirus disease vaccine to nursing home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson, [Reuters]Russia reports 28,284 new coronavirus cases
Russia has reported 28,284 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 3,050,248 after it crossed the 3 million mark on the previous day.
Russia’s coronavirus crisis centre said 552 coronavirus patients had died in the last 24 hours and the overall national coronavirus death toll was at 54,778.
Italy kicks off vaccinations against COVID-19 in Rome
Almost 10 months after the first Italian patient tested positive for the new coronavirus, Italy has 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 Aliverini 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”.
Claudia Alivernini, one of the first recipients of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Italy, receives her vaccination at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome [Reuters]Cyprus starts rollout of COVID-19 vaccine
Cyprus has started vaccinating its population against COVID-19.
Pensioners at homes in the capital Nicosia and the towns of Larnaca and Limassol were the first to receive a shot of the two-dose vaccine, which arrived by air on Saturday.
Cyprus has reported 19,391 cases of the novel coronavirus, and 111 deaths.
Boxes of Pfizer-BioNtech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines arrive at an undisclosed location in Nicosia, Cyprus [File:Reuters]Czech republic starts rollout of coronavirus vaccine
The Czech Republic has started administering vaccinations against the virus.
Prime Minister Andrej Babis was the first to get the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the Central Military Hospital in Prague, just before other hospitals in the capital and second-largest city Brno started to distribute the 9,750 doses the country has received so far.
“The vaccine which arrived from the European Union yesterday, that is a hope, a hope that we will return to a normal life,” Babis said before taking the jab.
Prime Minister Andrej Babis of the Czech Republic receives the first injection nationwide with a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech [David W Cerny/Reuters]EU begins vaccine roll-out
Several EU nations have started vaccinating their most vulnerable groups as a new coronavirus variant spread internationally and the WHO warned the current pandemic will not be the last.
The first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab arrived in hard-hit Italy, Spain and France on Saturday, ready for distribution to retirement homes and care staff.
The approval and roll-out of vaccines have boosted hopes that 2021 could bring a respite from the pandemic, which has killed more than 1.7 million people since emerging in China late last year.
Thailand’s COVID-19 outbreak grows
Thailand confirmed 121 new infections of the novel coronavirus, a senior official said, up from the 103 cases reported earlier in the day.
Taweesin Wisanuyothin, a spokesman for the country’s COVID-19 pandemic task force, said at a briefing that the new cases include 94 domestic transmissions and 18 in migrant workers connected to an outbreak at a seafood market in Samut Sakhon, a province southwest of Bangkok.
Infections connected to this cluster have spread to 38 provinces.
Japan halts all foreign arrivals over UK variant
Japan is barring entry of all nonresident foreign nationals as a precaution against a new and potentially more contagious coronavirus variant that is spreading across the UK.
The Foreign Ministry says the entry ban will start Monday and last through January 31.
Sydney awaits verdict on New Year’s festivities
Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak continued on Sunday with more than a quarter of a million people in lockdown as Australia’s largest city awaited word on whether any public New Year’s Eve celebrations will be allowed.
Seven COVID-19 cases were reported in New South Wales state, six linked directly to the outbreak in Sydney’s northern beach suburbs, which are under a stay-at-home order until Wednesday. Infections stand at 122.
“We hope to have some clear information for everybody tomorrow, or the latest the day after, on what the New Year’s Eve and the next weeks will look like,” state Premier Gladys Berejiklian told a news conference.
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