Third wave of pandemic appears to be broken , says German health minister
The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be broken, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday, as social distancing measures and an accelerating vaccination campaign help lower the infection rate, Reuters reported. The third wave appears to be broken, Spahn told a regular weekly news briefing on Germany s pandemic management.
The head of the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases, Lothar Wieler, said the incidence of COVID-19 infections was falling across all age groups, and he was hopeful of soon controlling the pandemic in Germany.
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Lothar Wieler said the incidence of COVID-19 infections was falling across all age groups, and he was hopeful of soon controlling the pandemic in Germany.
Health Minister Spahn on Thursday allowed the shot from AstraZeneca to be given to all adults
The decision followed moves by several German federal states to allow people to get the AstraZeneca shot, in consultation with their doctors.
Berlin: The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be broken, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday, as social distancing measures and an accelerating vaccination campaign help lower the infection rate. The third wave appears to be broken, Spahn told a regular weekly news briefing on Germany`s pandemic management.
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German Health Minister Jens Spahn attends a news conference on the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation in Berlin, Germany May 7, 2021. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/Pool
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Britain restricted the use of AstraZeneca s (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine on Friday while Germany said it would give the shot to anyone who wants it, in a risk-management role reversal that reflects the divergent progress of their vaccination campaigns.
The shifts in guidance on the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker s vector-based shot demonstrate just how hard it is for policy makers to weigh its benefits against risks in the form of very rare - yet occasionally fatal - cases of blood clotting.
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European leaders expressed growing skepticism on Friday that proposals to protect patents on COVID-19 vaccines would solve the problem of the U.S. receiving shots in the arms of people in poorer countries, with some demanding more exports of doses already produced. .
While activists and humanitarian groups are calling for the Biden administration’s decision to be welcomed and others to be followed, they are spreading a message that EU leaders will extend the benefits of a temporary waiver of intellectual property protection.
Instead, they have been taken by the US, mainly for not sharing more vaccines in the rest of the world.
A "global reset" is needed to fight future pandemics, Germany's Health Minister Jens Spahn told a World Health Organization (WHO) briefing on Wednesday as the UN agency announced the creation of a new research hub in Berlin. Spahn highlighted the.