It’s a campaign the likes of which has never been attempted before: A coordinated effort to vaccinate the population of Europe, some 450 million people against the coronavirus. The campaign got underway on Sunday, in what the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described as a “moment of unity” for the continent. But there were some hiccups along the way. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry has the latest.
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