Germany’s coronavirus vaccination campaign has faced delays in several cities after medical staff found potential irregularities in the cooling of the vaccine produced by local company BioNTech and America’s Pfizer.
Key points:
- The Pfizer vaccine may not have been kept at temperatures of about -70 degrees Celsius while being shipped
- Several northern Bavarian cities delayed inoculating residents due to uncertainty about whether the temperature had been maintained
- Officials said safety was the priority, not getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible
The European Union launched a mass COVID-19 vaccination drive on Sunday (local time) with pensioners and health workers lining up to get the first shots to see off a pandemic that has…
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