Spain's elderly get second COVID-19 shot, court OKs jab for incapacitated woman

📆 19/1/2021 4:19 am
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Spain has begun administering second shots of the coronavirus vaccine to elderly nursing home residents, while a court in Seville ruled on Monday that a home could inoculate an incapacitated resident against her family's wishes. Like many other countries, Spain is racing to vaccinate care homes to prevent a repeat of the epidemic's devastating first wave, which killed some 20,000 residents between March and May, according to preliminary data reported by El Pais newspaper. In the central city of Guadalajara, 96-year old Araceli Hidalgo Sanchez, Spain's earliest recipient of a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, said she was delighted to have received the second and encouraged others to do the same.

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Weapons in the Western Theatre Command have been upgraded as tensions with India rose following a deadly clash between the two sides in the Galwan Valley in June. Both sides have also increased the number of troops stationed along their disputed frontier after the incident, which left 20 Indian soldiers dead and caused an unknown number of PLA casualties.

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