ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「The effort to vaccinate more than 450 million people across the European Union began on Sunday, starting with older people and the workers who care for them.⁣ ⁣ The inoculations offered a rare respite as the continent struggles with one of its most precarious moments since the pandemic began.⁣ ⁣ Despite national lockdowns, restrictions on movement, shuttering of restaurants and cancellations of Christmas gatherings, the virus has stalked Europe into the dark winter months. The spread in Britain of a more contagious variant of the virus has raised such alarm that much of continental Europe rushed to close its borders to travelers coming from the U.K., effectively plunging the nation as a whole into quarantine.⁣ ⁣ “Today, we start turning the page on a difficult year,” @ursulavonderleyen, the president of the @europeancommission, wrote on Twitter. “The #COVID19 vaccine has been delivered to all EU countries.”⁣ ⁣ More than 350,000 people in the 27 nations that make up the EU have died from Covid-19 since the bloc’s first fatality was recorded in France on February 15. And for many countries, the worst days have come in recent weeks. Germany recorded nearly 1,000 deaths every day in the week before Christmas. And in Poland, November was the deadliest month since the end of World War II.⁣ ⁣ Tap the link in our bio for the latest updates on the coronavirus. Photo by @laetitiavancon of a resident of a nursing home in Munich receiving an injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Sunday.⁣」12月28日 2時48分