(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) More than 10 million people in Germany have received at least one dose of the vaccine, the president calls on the public to actively vaccinate
China News Agency, Berlin, April 3 (Reporter Peng Dawei) German Health Minister Spun announced on the 3rd that as of that morning, more than 10 million people in the country had received at least one dose of the new crown vaccine, equivalent to 12% of the total population; The number of people who have received the second dose of vaccine is 4.3 million.
German President Steinmeier said in an Easter TV speech that day that vaccination is the most important step in getting out of the new crown pandemic.
He called on the public to actively vaccinate.
Spun gave the above data in a post on social media that day.
He said that among the vaccines that Germans have been vaccinated, about 10.7 million doses are Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, and the rest are 700,000 doses of Modena vaccine and 2.9 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine.
Steinmeier said in his speech that day that Germany has done a lot of work in the fight against the epidemic, and achieved a lot of results, but it has also made mistakes, such as new crown testing, vaccination and digital solutions.
He said frankly that there is currently a "crisis of trust" and that Germany needs easy-to-understand and pragmatic epidemic prevention rules so that people can regain the direction of their efforts.
In order to encourage people to get vaccinated, the German Presidential Palace announced on the 1st that Steinmeier was vaccinated with AstraZeneca on the same day.
Steinmeier said that he trusts all vaccines approved in Germany. Vaccination is the most important step to get out of the new crown pandemic. For this reason, he called on citizens to make good use of the vaccination opportunities provided by the government.
In March of this year, the AstraZeneca vaccine was once suspended by the German authorities. A few days after the resumption of vaccination, the authorities announced the suspension of the vaccine for people under 60.
In order to dispel public doubts about vaccination, many politicians who have reached 60 years of age, including the spokesperson of the German Federal Government Seibert and the director of the Robert Koch Institute for Disease Control and Prevention, Willer, have posted on social media. Took a photo of himself vaccinated with AstraZeneca.
The German disease control agency announced that the number of newly diagnosed new crown virus infections and new deaths were 18,129 and 120 respectively.
According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 20:45 on the 3rd local time, Germany had a total of 2,883,478 confirmed diagnoses, 2,560,271 cured, and 77,596 deaths.
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