COVID-19 has killed more than 1.6 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation, but vaccines are offering hope.
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The Windmill Girls, showgirls from the Windmill Theatre in London, are vaccinated against influenza on 12 September 1963.
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Nurse Marie Josette Francou vaccinates people against cholera in Mong Duc, Indochina on 10 October, 1953.
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In this photo from 14 April, 1947, a long line snakes its way toward the entrance of Morrisania Hospital in New York's Bronx, where doctors inoculate locals against smallpox.
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French reporter Dominique Faget receives the flu vaccine at the headquarters of Agence France-Presse in Paris on 15 September 1976.
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A flu vaccination in a factory in Leningrad, USSR, in 1977.
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Taken on 16 August, 1957, this photo shows Dr. Joseph Ballinger giving Marjorie Hill, a nurse at Montefiore Hospital in New York, the first Asian flu vaccine shot administered in the city.
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People queue on 1 September 1961 to be vaccinated against cholera in front of a medical centre in Hong Kong.
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Michelle Krebs, 18, reacts as she is vaccinated by school nurse Jill Kuhns, Friday, 8 June, 2001 a Salem High School in Salem, Ohio. Medical personnel planned to give free vaccination shots to 5, 800 students and staff from six area high schools as a precaution after a bacterial meningitis outbreak that killed two teens and made another child sick.
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Elvis Presley receives a Salk polio vaccine shot from Dr. Harold Fuerst on 28 October, 1956, in New York City.
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Coggie Pearce, left, and his sister, Debbie, 4, rub their behinds after receiving inoculations of gamma globulin in mass testing of the preventative polio vaccine, 2 July, 1952.
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People queue on April 20, 1959 to be vaccinated against smallpox in Singapore. More than 20,000 people were vaccinated in one day. after a small outbreak.
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A U.S. Navy hospital corpsman, member of a USAID military health team, inoculates a flood refugee against cholera at the refugee centre on Nui Sam mountain, Chau Doc province., 1966