Vaccination 💉 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 👇
🇷🇴 Romania

Mihaela 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 
🇭🇺 Hungary

Kertész 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
🇪🇸 Spain

Araceli 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
🇩🇪 Germany

101-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
🇸🇰 Slovakia

Vladimír 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).
🇨🇿 Czechia

First person to get the vaccine is Czech prime-minister Andrej Babiš. https://twitter.com/ReutersUS/status/1343111931184488450?s=19
🇲🇹 Malta

Rachel Grech, nurse who works at the Mater Dei Hospital, at the Infectious Diseases Unit.

🔗 https://twitter.com/WindsMalta/status/1343121903347769344?s=19
🇵🇱 Poland

Alicja Jakubowska, head nurse at the Central Clinical Hospital MSWiA in Warsaw.

(Thx @ChrisLashHist 👍)

https://twitter.com/PremierRP/status/1343097994145619968?s=19
🇸🇪 Sweden

Gunn-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
🇩🇰 Denmark

Leif 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
🇵🇹 Portugal

António 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
🇨🇾 Cyprus

Andreas 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/
🇮🇹 Italy

Claudia 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
🇦🇹 Austria

An 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
🇸🇮 Slovenia

Apparently 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
🇫🇷 France

Mauricette [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
🇱🇹 Lithuania

Nijola 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/
🇪🇪 Estonia

Jelena Rozinko, 24 y.o. resident doctor at the Kohtla-Järve Medical Center

(thx @64mkv 👍)

https://twitter.com/errnews/status/1343149447207919616?s=19
🇬🇷 Greece

Eustathia Kampisiouli, a nurse working in the ICU of Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens https://twitter.com/MylonasMakis/status/1343153074676920320?s=19
🇭🇷 Croatia

Branka 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
🇫🇮 Finland

Eija 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
🇧🇬 Bulgaria

At 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
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
🇧🇪 Belgium

At 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 
🇱🇺 Luxembourg

Head 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
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