Sweden moves towards eliminating upper age limit on AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
Germany will stretch the interval between administering the first and second doses of Covid-19 vaccines "to its maximum," Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Wednesday.
She said there will be a 42-day gap for the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech shot and a 12-week one for the second shot of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine.
This will allow us to vaccinate more people faster for the first vaccination. This is also recommended by the STIKO [Germany's vaccine commission]," Merkel said.
The Chancellor also said that in a bid to speed up the rollout of coronavirus vaccines, Germany will aim to swiftly distribute ...