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Coronavirus: Applause as nurse who looked after first Italian COVID-19 patient receives vaccine

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Onlookers in Codogno, Italy, cheered on Sunday as Lucia Premoli, the nurse who took care of Italy’s first COVID-19 patient, received the coronavirus vaccine.

Annalisa Malara, an anesthetist at Codogno hospital, was horrified on Feb. 20 when she saw the image of the lungs of Mattia Maestri, a 38 year-old Italian citizen who later became known as Italy's COVID-19 'patient 1'.

Since Malara's discovery, more than 70,000 Italians have died in the ongoing worldwide pandemic.

But on Dec. 27, as Italy kicked off vaccinations with health workers lining up to take the first shots of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Malara saw a light of “bottled” hope for Italy and also for Lombardy, Italy's hardest-hit region.

The European Union is due to receive 12.5 million doses by the end of the year, enough to vaccinate 6.25 million people based on the two-dose regimen. The companies are scrambling to meet global demand and aim to make 1.3 billion shots next year.

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