Germany and Hungary begin Covid-19 vaccinations

Dr Bernhard Ellendt injects the Covid-19 vaccine into nursing home resident Edith Kwoizalla, aged 101, in Halberstadt, Germany (AP)

Germany and Hungary have begun administering their first coronavirus vaccine jabs just hours after receiving their first shipments, upsetting the European Union’s plans for a co-ordinated rollout on Sunday across the bloc’s 27 nations.

Tobias Krueger, the operator of a nursing home where immunisations began on Saturday in Halberstadt, in the north-eastern German region of Saxony-Anhalt, said: “Every day that we wait is one day too many.”