Several EU nations have begun vaccinating their most vulnerable groups today as a new coronavirus variant spread internationally and the WHO warned the current pandemic will not be the last.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis became the first person in his country to be given the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 at the Central Military Hospital in Prague. "The vaccine which arrived from the European Union yesterday, that is a hope, a hope that we will return to a normal life," Mr Babis said before receiving the jab.
As of this morning, Czechs had reported 670,599 cases of coronavirus while 11,044 people have died. A 101-year-old woman in an elderly care homebecame the first person in Germany to be inoculated against coronavirus