Covid-19 vaccine shipments arrive across EU before rollout

Medical staff receive part of a Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine shipment at the UZ Leuven hospital in Leuven, Belgium (Nicolas Maeterlinck, Pool via AP)

The first shipments of coronavirus vaccines have arrived across the European Union as authorities prepare to administer the first jabs to the most vulnerable people in a co-ordinated effort on Sunday.

The vaccines developed by BioNTech and Pfizer arrived by truck in warehouses across the continent on Friday and early on Saturday after being sent from a manufacturing centre in Belgium before Christmas.