Germany to approve additional vaccines, “all citizens will be vaccinated by summer”-Joseilbo Mobile

German Health Minister Jens Schfan said on the 29th (local time) that if there is additional approval for the COVID-19 vaccine, all citizens who wish to receive the vaccine in Germany by next summer will be able to get the vaccine.

According to the Reuters news agency, on the 29th (local time), the German authorities have secured 4 million vaccines from Pfizer and Bioentech, compared to Israeli, which is 1/10 of the German population, secured 5 million times. Refuted, “I ordered enough.”

“We expect to have 130 million doses of vaccine in Modena and Pfizer,” he countered, saying, “It’s enough to give it to anyone who wants to get the vaccine.

When asked when the vaccination would be made to everyone, he said, “It depends on whether we can get more approvals.” It is possible.”

On the 27th (local time), member states of the European Union began vaccinating Pfizer and Bioentech. In Germany, on the 26th (local time), the day before, the vaccine was administered to residents of nursing homes.

US pharmaceutical company Moderna said it expects the EU to approve its vaccine in mid-January. In addition, Curebag, a German bio-pharmaceutical company, started a phase 2b/3 clinical trial of a vaccine candidate, and Johnson & Johnson is expected to produce the results of an interim analysis of the phase 3 clinical trial at the end of January.

On the other hand, the UK government announced that it plans to start vaccination jointly developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University from January 4 of next year, and it is known that AstraZeneca has not yet submitted an application to the EU. It was predicted that it would be difficult to spread of

Health Minister Sfan said that day, “if the third vaccine is approved by the European Union (EU), population immunity can be achieved in theory.”

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, Germany recorded the highest number of confirmed cases on the 22nd (local time), with 36,000 cases per day. As of the 28th, the total number of confirmed cases in Germany exceeded 1.67 million, and the number of cumulative deaths occurred in more than 31,000.