
COVID vaccination has begun across the European Union with a publicity campaign calling on the public to “believe in science.”
The vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer is the same already approved for use in Britain, the United States and Canada.
The first Italian to be inoculated was a nurse, Claudia Alivernini. “Today I’m here as a citizen but most of all as a nurse, to represent my category and all the health workers who choose to believe in science,” she said as she was vaccinated at the Spallanzani infectious disease hospital in Rome — the site where a couple visiting from Wuhan became Italy’s first confirmed cases in January.

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers