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EU Begins Covid-19 Vaccinations After Clearing Pfizer Shot

  • Governments have tightened curbs to tackle rising deaths
  • Rollout comes weeks after U.S., U.K. began vaccine program

Health workers receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Turin, Italy, on Dec. 27.

Photographer: Marco Bertorelllo/AFP/Getty Images

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European Union countries began vaccinating against Covid-19 as members of the 27-nation bloc struggle with a rising death toll from the virus.

The coordinated rollout launched on Sunday is getting underway less than a week after the EU cleared a shot developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE. Several European countries, including Germany, have imposed tougher restrictions in an effort to contain a winter surge in infections and deaths.

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