EU Says It Has Reached Goal of Vaccinating 70 percent of Adults

Health workers speak with Mauricette, a 78-year-old French woman, after she received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the country, at the Rene-Muret hospital in Sevran, on the outskirts of Paris, France, on Dec. 27, 2020. Thomas Samson/Pool via Reuters

BRUSSELS—The European Commission said on Tuesday that 70 percent of the European Union’s adult population had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, hitting a target it set at the beginning of the year.

In January, the Commission said that “by summer 2021, member states should have vaccinated a minimum of 70 percent of the adult population.”