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EU countries rollout coronavirus vaccine

27/12/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, EU countries rollout coronavirus vaccine

Germany, Hungary and Slovakia have already started immunising people

Germany, Hungary and Slovakia have already started immunising people.

A mass coronavirus vaccination campaign is due to get underway in the European Union on Sunday, with the rollout of the Pfizer- BioNTech vaccine. .  Germany, Hungary and Slovakia have already begun immunisation.

Also in the programme: A look ahead to elections in the Central African Republic and the science behind the development of coronavirus vaccines.

Joining Celia Hatton to discuss these and other issues are: Paula Erizanu a Moldovan-born journalist and Gareth McLean a British writer and dramatist.

(Picture: A vaccine vial is held by a pharmacist in Hungary. Credit: EPA/Zsolt Czegledi)

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