(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany added a new record in a single day, Merkel said the EU could approve vaccine use as soon as December

  China News Agency, Berlin, November 20 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The German disease control agency announced on the 20th that the number of newly diagnosed new crown virus infections reached 23648, which once again set a new record for the number of new people in a single day since the outbreak in the country.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed optimism on the EU's progress in approving the use of the new crown vaccine.

She expects that the vaccine will be approved in the European Union as soon as December this year or early next year, and vaccination will begin.

The picture shows an advertisement reminding people to wear masks on the train at the Berlin Health Spring Station on the afternoon of November 16.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Peng Dawei

  This is a short-term new high in the number of new cases in a single day in Germany after 23,542 new cases were confirmed in a single day on November 13.

According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 22:00 local time on the 20th, the total number of confirmed diagnoses in Germany has exceeded 900,000, reaching 901,737; a total of 578,898 people have been cured and 14,101 people have died.

  On the 20th, BioNTech announced that the new coronavirus mRNA vaccine jointly developed by it and Pfizer has formally submitted an emergency use authorization (EUA) application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The final results of the third phase of the vaccine announced a few days ago showed that its effective rate reached 95%.

  Merkel made the aforementioned remarks at a press conference held after a video conference with leaders of EU member states on the epidemic response.

  Merkel said that the recent news from the field of new crown vaccine research and development is full of hope, "We expect that the European Union will also approve the use of the vaccine in December this year or early next year. Vaccination will naturally start at that time."

  Merkel said that EU countries’ preparations for initiating vaccination generally follow a similar direction, all focusing on the question of “which group of people should be vaccinated first”.

Merkel said that medical staff and people at high risk of severe disease will be vaccinated first.

  Merkel is expected to negotiate with the governors of the German states again on the next step of the epidemic prevention strategy on the 25th of this month.

German media reported that since the new version of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Law passed by the German Bundestag gives the government more power to implement more epidemic prevention measures, the second round of "closures" that are being implemented may be extended to December 20.

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