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Vaccination 
starts today all across the European Union 
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I'll be updating throughout the day on the first person in each EU member state to get the Covid-19 vaccine 
starts today all across the European Union Thread
I'll be updating throughout the day on the first person in each EU member state to get the Covid-19 vaccine
RomaniaMihaela Anghel, 26 y.o. nurse at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases who was part of the team that received Romania's first Covid-19 pacient
https://m.hotnews.ro/stire/24507354
HungaryKertész Adrienne, head doctor of the infection control section of South Pest Centrum Hospital
https://infostart.hu/belfold/2020/12/26/megtortent-az-elso-koronavirus-oltas-magyarorszagon
SpainAraceli Hidalgo, 96 y.o. from the Los Olmos nursing home in Guadalajara.
Second person was a nurse there named Mónica Tapias.
Thx @AlmagroSchool
https://twitter.com/rtve/status/1343105450124914689?s=19
Germany101-year-old Edith Kwoizalla from a nursing home in Halberstadt in the Harz hill range.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-27/germany2c-hungary-give-first-coronavirus-vaccine-shots-ahead-o/13016208
SlovakiaVladimír Krčméry, physician, infectious diseases specialist and member of the government's Pandemic Commission.
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2020/12/27/slovakia-starts-vaccinations-against-covid-19
A small note: Germany, Hungary and Slovakia started administering the vaccine one day early of official #VaccineDay (on 26 December, not 27).
Germany, Hungary and Slovakia started administering the vaccine one day early of official #VaccineDay (on 26 December, not 27).
CzechiaFirst person to get the vaccine is Czech prime-minister Andrej Babiš. https://twitter.com/ReutersUS/status/1343111931184488450?s=19
MaltaRachel Grech, nurse who works at the Mater Dei Hospital, at the Infectious Diseases Unit.
https://twitter.com/WindsMalta/status/1343121903347769344?s=19
PolandAlicja Jakubowska, head nurse at the Central Clinical Hospital MSWiA in Warsaw.
(Thx @ChrisLashHist
)https://twitter.com/PremierRP/status/1343097994145619968?s=19
SwedenGunn-Britt Johnsson, 91 y.o. woman living in a care home in Mjölby, a small city mid-way between Stockholm and Gothenburg.
https://twitter.com/TheLocalSweden/status/1343133151552393219?s=19
DenmarkLeif Heiselberg, 79 y.o. at the Ældrecenter Øst nursing home in Odense, the country's third largest city.
https://twitter.com/DRNyheder/status/1343105723522150400?s=19
PortugalAntónio Sarmento, 65 y.o. doctor and director of infectious disease services at the São João Hospital, in Porto
(thx @pedroCsimoes
)https://www.lusa.pt/article/YS2rrWMdVFpVLU9PFRU5qTMSZM5iuSI1
CyprusAndreas Raounas, 84 y.o. resident of the Athos Matsas Care Home in Nicosia, and Panagiota Loizou Fylaktou, 88 y.o. its director, were the first citizens to get vaccinated.
https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/messages-of-hope-from-first-pensioners-to-get-the-jab-in-nicosia/
ItalyClaudia Alivernini, 29 y.o. health care worker at Rome Spallanzani hospital, first of a group of three health care workers there to be vaccinated.
https://twitter.com/MinisteroSalute/status/1343114168703004672?s=19
AustriaAn unnamed 84 y.o. lady, who volunteered, wanting to finally be able to see her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren again.
https://twitter.com/MedUni_Wien/status/1343122440872992768?s=19
SloveniaApparently it's the retired archbishop of Maribor, Franc Kramberger, part of a group of 3 elderly rrsidents of a care home.
via @bossito
https://twitter.com/govSlovenia/status/1343138310747807745?s=19
FranceMauricette [family name not given], 78 y.o., vaccinated at the René-Muret Hospital in Sevran, Seine-Saint-Denis (93) in the greater Paris area.
(thx @Ellliee544
)https://twitter.com/LCI/status/1343147277536419840?s=19
![FranceMauricette [family name not given], 78 y.o., vaccinated at the René-Muret Hospital in Sevran, Seine-Saint-Denis (93) in the greater Paris area.(thx @Ellliee544 ) https://twitter.com/LCI/status/1343147277536419840?s=19](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqPax6yW8AE666P.jpg "FranceMauricette [family name not given], 78 y.o., vaccinated at the René-Muret Hospital in Sevran, Seine-Saint-Denis (93) in the greater Paris area.(thx @Ellliee544 ) https://twitter.com/LCI/status/1343147277536419840?s=19")
France (2)After Mauricette M., it was Jean-Jacques Monsuez, a 65 y.o. cardiologist at the same hospital who received the shot.
(thx @LRigarai
) https://twitter.com/APHP/status/1343144980106375169?s=19
LithuaniaNijola Ramonaitė, a nurse at the Infectious Diseases Center of Santara Clinic was the first to be vaccinated in Vilnius. At the same time, vaccination began in four more hospitals in the country.
(thx @VilijaSysaite
)https://tv.lrytas.lt/zinios/lietuvos-diena/2020/12/27/news/vilniaus-santaros-klinikose-nuo-koronaviruso-paskiepyta-pirmoji-slaugytoja-17664312/
EstoniaJelena Rozinko, 24 y.o. resident doctor at the Kohtla-Järve Medical Center
(thx @64mkv
)https://twitter.com/errnews/status/1343149447207919616?s=19
GreeceEustathia Kampisiouli, a nurse working in the ICU of Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens https://twitter.com/MylonasMakis/status/1343153074676920320?s=19
CroatiaBranka Aničić, 81 y.o., resident of the Trešnjevka Care Home, who used to work as a pharmaceutical technician at the Sisters of Mercy Clinical Hospital in Zagreb
https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/gospoda-branka-kaze-da-nista-nije-ni-osjetila-presretna-sam-da-sam-ja-prva-ne-bojte-se-cijepljenja-15039276
FinlandEija Koponen & Marcus Norrgård, intensive care nurses
Timo Suonsyrjä, head of emergency dept.
Benny Hellqvist, head of intensive care
Kirsi Mustalammi, deputy nurse in the emergency dept
Andrea Nummi, lung dept. nurse.
(thx @IikkaKorhonen
)https://www.iltalehti.fi/koronavirus/a/8149b44b-e6f3-4f77-adb0-c21a45a885cb
BulgariaAt the same time:
Health Min. Kostadin Angelov at St. Anna Hosp. in Sofia.
Dr. Ivan Madjarov, president of Bg. Medical Union, at St. George Univ. Hosp. in Plovdiv
Zlatina Parusheva, a nurse from the Emergency Dept. of Univ. Hosp. in Burgas
https://m.dir.bg/dnes/na-fokus/parvi-vaksinatsii-v-sofiya-plovdiv-i-burgas-zapochvame-s-kostadin-angelov
Thread paused for today. As far as I can tell, vaccination will start in the rest of the member states as follows:
Latvia, 
Belgium & 
Luxembourg tomorrow, Monday, 28.12
Ireland - Wednesday, 30.12
The Netherlands - not until 8.01, almost two weeks from now
Latvia, Belgium & Luxembourg tomorrow, Monday, 28.12 Ireland - Wednesday, 30.12 The Netherlands - not until 8.01, almost two weeks from now
A paranthesis:
Austria's first pacient, 84 years of age, is named Theresia Hofer
Thanks to @dorisSorger for pointing it out (initial articles I had found didn't mention, and I assumed she had chosen not to give her name) https://twitter.com/Arnold_Platon/status/1343153487924908033?s=19
Austria's first pacient, 84 years of age, is named Theresia HoferThanks to @dorisSorger for pointing it out (initial articles I had found didn't mention, and I assumed she had chosen not to give her name) https://twitter.com/Arnold_Platon/status/1343153487924908033?s=19
BelgiumAt the same time
Josepha Delmotte, 102 y.o., of Bonne Maison de Bouzanton care home in Mons, Wallonia
Jos Hermans, 96 y.o., of the Sint-Pieters care home in Puurs, Flanders
Lucie Danjou, 101 y.o., of Woluwe-St-Pierre, Brussels region
https://m.rtl.be/info/1268565
LuxembourgHead Nurse Catarina Fernandes and Nurse Kevin Navarro both employed at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg.
(Thx @grischard
)https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1636819.html
