The European Union (EU) has launched a campaign to encourage citizens to receive the coronavirus vaccine following the European Medicines Agency’s approval of the shot.
Like many other countries and territories, the EU will provide the vaccine first to older people and health workers. It is scheduled to receive enough vaccine to inoculate 6.25 million people by the end of the year, according to Reuters.
The EU has signed contracts with several vaccine manufacturers, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna, and aims to vaccinate all adults next year.
“We know that today is not the end of the pandemic, but it is the beginning of victory,” Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Sunday.
To combat the reluctance to receive the vaccine, EU leaders are aggressively launching vaccination as a way to return to a pre-coronavirus status quo, according to the news service.
French President Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Macron Macron is now asymptomatic after testing positive for COVID-19 France, slowly allowing UK freight passengers to access 700 front-line citizenship workers as a reward for risk, who recently recovered from a fight with the virus, wrote on Twitter that Europeans must “stand firm once more” during the launch of drugs.
We have a new weapon against the virus: the vaccine. Hold on together again.
– Emmanuel Macron
Skepticism about the vaccine has been particularly high in France, prompting officials to work to ensure the public is not forced to administer it, according to The Associated Press. Although the first vaccinations in many other countries were televised, France did not do so for its first inoculation in a nursing home, although it was broadcast elsewhere in Europe.
“It simply came to our notice then. She said, “Yes, I am prepared for anything to prevent this disease,” said Samir Tine, head of the asylum’s geriatric services, about the 78-year-old resident who received his first dose in France, according to the AP.