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Nursing homes to get first COVID vaccinations in Sweden
Sweden to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus, the government said on Friday.Sweden has signed up to receive five of the six vaccines to be purchased through the European Union's common procurement scheme; the first, from Pfizer and BioNTech's, could be approved by the European Medicines Agency in late December."First, we need to protect the most vulnerable, then vaccinate the whole population so the pandemic slows and then is stopped," Johan Carlson, head of the Public Health Agency, told a news conference.Sweden has imposed some of the least stringent social and economic restrictions in Western Europe to tackle the pandemic.