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Now playing Next Europe News EU vaccine wait nearly over, but what took so long? The EU finally gave a date - 27th December - for when vaccines will be rolled out, pending approval from the European Medicine Agency, but why the wait when other countries are already rolling out jabs? 17/12/2020
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