<span style="color: #222222;">Several European Union countries have begun vaccinating against COVID-19 today. In Italy, a nurse, a university professor and a doctor were the first people to receive the initial vaccine dose at Rome's Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In Spain, the vaccination began at Los Olmos nursing home in Guadalajara. In the Czech Republic, Prime Minister Andrej Babis was among the first people inoculated, as vaccinations began nationwide.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In Germany yesterday, 101-year-old Edith Kwoizalla, who lives in a retirement home, received the first of her two shots. In Hungary, it was a doctor, Arienne Kertesz from South Pest. In Slovakia, an infectious disease specialist was the first in line. The first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were limited to 10,000 doses in most EU countries.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The vaccination in EU countries began as a new Coronavirus variant, more contagious and more dangerous, spread internationally, adding emphasis to the World Health Organization's warning that the current pandemic will not be the last.</span><br />''  <br />