As Hanna Zientara, 83, emerged from subfreezing temperatures into a vaccine centre in Warsaw for a booster shot against COVID-19, her 30-year-old grandson was starting a vacation in Tenerife — unvaccinated and stubbornly refusing her repeated pleas to protect himself.
"He said: 'No matter what you tell me, I will not get vaccinated.' Nothing can be done," she said.
Poland and several other countries across central and eastern Europe are battling a massive surge of infections and death fuelled by the transmissible delta variant.
Now they face the spectre of another variant, omicron, with vaccinations rates far lower in Western Europe.
In Russia, the death toll peaked at over 1,200 people a day for several days in late November and remains at
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