Germany's BioNTech hopes for 12-15 year olds to receive Covid vaccine from June
BioNTech said Thursday that it expected its Covid-19 vaccine, jointly developed with Pfizer, to be available to 12-to-15-year-olds in Europe from June.
German police probe nurse who used 'saline solution in place of' BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine
A nurse in Germany was under investigation Sunday after she admitted to swapping the coronavirus vaccine for a saline solution in six cases because she wanted to cover up that she had dropped a vial of BionTech/Pfizer.
Europe's Covid-19 'hotspots' to be sent four million more vaccine doses
The European Union will receive an extra four million BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine doses over the next two weeks to be deployed to Covid-19 "hotspots", European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.
No European deaths directly tied to Covid-19 vaccine, say scientists
Scientists in Europe say evidence available so far does not incriminate the new anti-Covid vaccines in the numerous deaths of elderly and frail people shortly after they had received the coronavirus vaccine.
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Governments across Europe are hastily vaccinating their populations against the Covid-19 virus as infection rates remain worryingly high. We look at how some countries are having more success than others and the reasons why.
101-year old woman first to get vaccine in Germany
A 101-year-old woman in an elderly care home became the first person in Germany to be inoculated against coronavirus on Saturday, a day before the official vaccination campaign was scheduled to get underway in both Germany and the EU.
First doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine arrive in German regions
The first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine have now been delivered to all of Germany's 16 states, the country's DPA news agency has reported, ahead of the first vaccinations on Sunday
FOCUS: How BioNTech and Germany's 'Mittelstand' worked together on the vaccine
It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, "we need to fire the starting gun on this".
ANALYSIS: How close is Germany to receiving a Covid-19 vaccine?
The EU has reached a deal on a promising Covid-19 vaccine that is partially developed in Germany. What happens next and what does it mean for Germany?
The German husband-and-wife team behind the breakthrough Covid-19 vaccine
Progress on a Covid-19 vaccine has propelled the modest husband-and-wife team behind German firm BioNTech into the global limelight, with attention inevitably focusing on their background as the children of Turkish immigrants.