A healthcare worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a swab from a woman for a rapid COVID-19 test, at a testing site which is temporarily on the coastal edge in a beach, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Vina del Mar, Chile, December 20, 2020. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile, the first country in South America to begin vaccinating against COVID-19, started innoculations on Thursday after receiving its initial 10,000 doses from Pfizer-BioNtech.
Specialist nurse Zulema Riquelme, 46, a 26-year veteran at the public hospital in a poor area of the capital, was the first Chilean to receive the vaccine.
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