More than 50 countries launch COVID-19 vaccination campaigns

A year on after the first global cases of COVID-19 appeared in Wuhan, a number of countries have already begun implementing mass vaccination programs.

Israeli Prime Minister Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets ready to receive a coronavirus vaccine at Sheba Medical Center on 19 December 2020.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets ready to receive a coronavirus vaccine at Sheba Medical Center on 19 December 2020. Source: AAP

Around 50 countries around the world have already started vaccinating their people against COVID-19, barely a year after the first alert by China signalled the start of the epidemic.


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Published 2 January 2021 8:53am
Presented by Yang J. Joo
Source: SBS


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