MADRID — A 96-year-old living in a care home in central Spain became the first person in the country to be vaccinated against Covid-19 on Sunday, in an event broadcast by national television.
She felt “nothing” from the shot, Araceli Rosario Hidalgo Sanchez said with a smile after being injected.
With her short white hair, the pensioner living in the Los Olmos retirement home in Guadalajara got up slowly after pulling on her black jacket and walked off using a frame for support.
Carer Monica Tapias followed as the second Spaniard to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The Los Olmos home was picked to kick off the country’s inoculation campaign because it sits near a Pfizer…
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