The first shots of a long battle. A 90-year-old pensioner from Enniskillen was the first to get her Covid-19 vaccine jab. We ask if it's truly the beginning of the end, how the rollout will proceed not just in Brexit-bound Britain but across Europe and the world. It's also a chance to measure the significance of the moment: the first-ever inoculation against a coronavirus going to market in record time. Will the public be clamouring to be first in line or will sceptics need convincing?
Vaccine politics also extends to the public-private partnerships that have pharmaceutical giants and governments banding together. With the Pfizer vaccine, it's US big pharma teaming up with BioNTech, a German startup founded by Turkish immigrants: a tale of globalisation that's worth noting in the face of a disease indifferent to territorial boundaries.
Produced by Charles Wente, Juliette Laurain and Imen Mellaz.
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