Araceli Hidalgo, the woman who in December 2020 became the first person in Spain to receive the covid vaccine, reaches another vital milestone this Tuesday: turning one hundred years old.
On this day in 1924, Araceli, who lives in the Los Olmos nursing home in Guadalajara, was born in Guadix (Granada) and since then she has experienced several historical events, and one of them has been to be the protagonist: December 27 In 2020, the first vaccine against covid in Spain was inoculated.
Since then, this woman has been a reference in the vaccination campaigns and, after her, millions of Spaniards have received the injection to protect themselves from the coronavirus, which caused thousands of deaths, confined citizens to their homes for months and conditioned life. for many more months.
That cold December morning, Araceli received the first dose of the vaccine, nervous about the media expectation that the event generated, but “very happy” and confident that, together, they would make the virus go away, since what What he wanted was to be able to see his family normally again.
At that time, this woman who had dedicated most of her life to taking care of her family was 96 years old, had a son, a daughter, four grandchildren and a great-grandson.
After the first dose, which Mónica, a nursing assistant and the youngest worker at the residence, then received, Araceli participated in the State tribute to the victims of the coronavirus presided over by the kings, and in 2021 she received the Gold Medal of Castilla-La Mancha from the hands of the president of the Community Board, Emiliano García-Page.
This Tuesday, García-Page also wanted to congratulate Araceli on her 100th birthday with a video published on social networks, which highlights that Araceli was “a symbol of hope against covid and trust in science.”
“Today is a very special day on the calendar. Araceli Hidalgo turns no less than 100 years old. I remember her cheerful attitude and her good disposition when receiving the first vaccine against covid-19 in Spain. She became a beacon of hope. Congratulations!” García-Page wrote on his social networks.
Since December 27, 2020 until today, 105,872,140 doses of coronavirus vaccine have been inoculated in Spain and more than 40.7 million people in the country have the complete regimen.
