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EU begins vaccine rollout

Doctor Bernhard Ellendt, right, injects the COVID-19 vaccine to nursing home resident Edith Kwoizalla, 101 years old, in Halberstadt, Germany.
Doctor Bernhard Ellendt, right, injects the COVID-19 vaccine to nursing home resident Edith Kwoizalla, 101 years old, in Halberstadt, Germany. Source: AAP

The European Union has begun a coordinated roll out of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Hungary administered its first vaccine on Saturday with other member states beginning inoculation on Sunday.


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The European Union has begun a coordinated roll out of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Hungary administered its first vaccine on Saturday with other member states beginning inoculation on Sunday.



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