Merkel receives Astra-Zeneka vaccine

Angela Merkel. / Photo: EPA-EFE / FILIP SINGER

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was vaccinated today against Covid-19 with the "Astra-Zeneka" vaccine, Deutsche Welle reported.

Chancellor Merkel, who will turn 67 in July, has already said she intends to be vaccinated but is waiting her turn.

И President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has previously also been vaccinated with the Astra-Zeneka vaccine. He said he had confidence in vaccines approved in Germany.

On the recommendation of the German Central Commission for Vaccines, from the beginning of April only people over the age of 60 are vaccinated with "Astra-Zeneka". The health ministers of the federal provinces a few days ago decided that the younger people who received "Astra-Zeneka" as the first vaccine, at the revaccination to receive a vaccine from "Pfizer" / "BioNTek" or "Moderna".

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