In Pictures: COVID-19 vaccines roll out around the world

The long-awaited coronavirus vaccines are now being shipped and distributed

Last updated: December 18, 2020 | 12:28

Reuters and Compiled by Christian Borbon, Senior Web Editor

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UPS employees move one of two shipping containers of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on ramp at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the arrival of a DHL plane carrying a first batch of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel.

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A general view of a vaccination centre at the Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany.

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A Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officer checks paperwork of a UPS driver carrying a load of Pfizer/BioNTEch COVID-19 vaccines at a border crossing in British Columbia, Canada.

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A box of Pfizer/BioNTEch COVID-19 vaccine is delivered from a UPS truck past news photographers to the Maimonides long term care home in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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UPS staff member scans boxes of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines for shipping to Canada from the UPS Cologne Air Hub in Germany.

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Richard Guarino, BMC Supply Chain Operations Associate Director, delivers Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine to the pharmacy at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts

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Pharmacy technicians received a delivery of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Patients enter the surgery to receive the first of two injections with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in a surgery in Wolverhampton, Britain.

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Physician Luisa Vera reacts after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at Indiana University Health, Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Nurse Debelyn Leach receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease vaccine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

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Margaret Keenan, 90, is the first patient in Britain to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at University Hospital, administered by nurse May Parsons, at the start of the largest ever immunization program in British history, in Coventry, Britain.

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Kayla Johnson, a registered nurse at Boston Medical Center, prepares a coronavirus vaccine for respiratory therapist Benjamin Fuertes at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts

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A Saudi man gets a dose of a coronavirus vaccine, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Personal support worker Johanne Lamesse reacts in anticipation to the needle as she receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Civic Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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