“We can keep our promise that by the end of the third quarter, that is, by the end of summer we will be able to make every citizen a vaccination offer.
Although, as the manufacturers (of vaccines) said today, something can always happen during the production process, they all do not yet have experience in relation to what can happen, but I think that the quarterly figures are already correct, "RIA Novosti quotes Merkel.
Earlier, the head of the German Paul Ehrlich Institute Klaus Tsichutek said that Germany is in contact with Russia on the issue of filing an application for registration of the Russian vaccine against the Sputnik V coronavirus in the EU.
It was also reported that the Ministry of Health of Germany is studying the proposal to create a "vaccination passport" of the European Union in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.