Climate activist Greta Thunberg receives first Covid-19 vaccine jab

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has received the first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday.

"I am extremely grateful and privileged to be able to live in a part of the world where I can already get vaccinated," the 18-year-old wrote on Twitter and posted a picture with a plaster on her left arm.

Thunberg also criticized the vaccine distribution around the world, calling it "extremely unequal."

According to the New York Times, 84% of the jabs so far have been administered in high- and upper-middle-income countries, while 0.3% of doses have been administered in low-income countries, she wrote.

Thunberg added that "no one is safe until everyone is safe" and asked people to not hesitate when offered a vaccine. "It saves lives," she wrote.

In Sweden, around 77% of all adults have received at least one vaccination dose so far, and almost half of the adults have already received their second dose.