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108-year-old Italian Covid-19 survivor gets vaccine

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108-year-old Italian Covid-19 survivor gets vaccine
A resident of the Anni Azzurri care home in Milan receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Photo: AFP

An Italian centenarian has become one of the oldest people in the world to get the Covid-19 vaccine months after she survived a coronavirus infection.

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Fatima Negrini, who is due to turn 109 on June 3rd, received the jab on Monday along with other residents of the Anni Azzurri San Faustino care home in Milan, a spokesman for her care home told AFP.

"The arrival of the vaccine for her and all guests and staff... represents a moment of great happiness and a first step towards a return to peaceful everyday life inside the facility," said Matteo Tessarollo.

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When Negrini shook off the virus last year, the Corriere della Sera newspaper quoted her as saying: "God forgot about me."

Italy began coronavirus vaccinations on December 27 and has since inoculated 1.15 million people.

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On Monday, a vaccine was also given to Sami Modiano, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor from Rome, according to regional president and leader of the centre-left  Democratic Party Nicola Zingaretti.

Posting a picture of Modiano getting the jab on Twitter, Zingaretti called it "an image of trust and hope for everybody".

 

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