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Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester from Northwell Health at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park [Mark Lennihan/Pool via Reuters]
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‘Relieved’: US health workers start getting COVID-19 vaccine

Intensive care unit nurse becomes the first person in the US to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference in Tehran on Monday [Official Presidential website via Reuters]

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An explosion struck a ship off Saudi Arabia's port city of Jeddah on the Red Sea on Monday [File: Amr Nabil/AP]

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To complete its action plan with the FATF, Iran had to finalise four pieces of legislation [File: Mohamadreza Nadimi/WANA via Reuters]

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Experts are concerned about how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed children's relationships with the world outside of their homes [File: Henning Bagger/ EPA-EFE]

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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara walks after his inauguration ceremony in Abidjan [Luc Gnago/Reuters]

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'I am appalled at the execution,' UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet says [Fabrice Coffrini/AFP]

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Shareef Ahmad Bajad, a Gujjar in Kanidajan village whose apple orchard was felled by authorities in central Indian-administered Kashmir for 'illegally occupying forest land' [Rifat Fareed/Al Jazeera]

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A still image from a video released by Azerbaijan's Defence Ministry shows military vehicles driving along a road as Azerbaijan army units enter the Agdam region of Nagorno-Karabakh, November 20, 2020 [Defence Ministry of Azerbaijan/Handout via Reuters]

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A nurse prepares to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy’s Hospital in London, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. U.K. health authorities rolled out the first doses of a widely tested and independently reviewed COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, starting a global immunization program that is expected to gain momentum as more serums win approval. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool)

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Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester from Northwell Health at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park [Mark Lennihan/Pool via Reuters]

‘Relieved’: US health workers start getting COVID-19 vaccine

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