“Thank God,” 96-year-old Araceli Hidalgo said as she became the first person in Spain to get a vaccine. She told staff at her care home in Guadalajara near Madrid she hadn’t felt a thing. “It is the beginning of the end ... it was an exciting, historical moment,” she said at Rome’s Spallanzani hospital. Beyond hospitals and care homes, sports halls and convention centres emptied by lockdown measures will become venues for mass inoculations. In Vienna, three women and two men over 80 got the vaccine in the presence of Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

Source: bd News24 December 27, 2020 10:18 UTC