We celebrate the New Year as a chance for a new beginning, and for most of us, leaving 2020 behind feels like a relief. In 2021, humankind starts fighting back against COVID-19 with a massive vaccination campaign. The European Union has coordinated and secured procurment(opens in a new tab) of 300 million doses of vaccine from BioNTech-Pfizer, and more than 1 billion doses of vaccines from five other companies, once the clinical testing is finished. One of them, British-Swedish AstraZeneca, has invited the Russian Gamaleya(opens in a new tab) Institute on testing a combining of the two companies’ vaccines. We are certainly not out of the woods yet, but there is cause for cautious optimism. 2021 could be a year of cooperation, of hope, of change.
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EUvsDisinfo: 2021 – a happy new year and some sad old tropes
Fireworks explode over the Kremlin during New Year celebrations in central Moscow early on Jan. 1, 2021.
