(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Merkel supports the unification of Germany's entire "hard lockdown" Bavaria pre-orders 2.5 million doses of Russian vaccines
China News Agency, Berlin, April 7 (Reporter Peng Dawei) In response to the third wave of the epidemic situation in Germany, German Chancellor Merkel said through a spokesperson on the 7th that she supports a shorter but more stringent reunification across Germany. The hard "closure of the city" measures.
The governor of Bavaria, Zeder, announced on the same day that the state has pre-ordered 2.5 million doses of the new coronavirus vaccine developed by Russia. Once the vaccine is approved in the EU, the state will use a factory in the state to produce the vaccine while importing the vaccine.
The German disease control agency announced on the same day that the number of newly confirmed infections with the new crown virus and the new deaths were 9,677 and 298 respectively.
According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 18:30 on the 7th local time, a total of 2,921,364 people have been diagnosed, 2,614,198 people have been cured, and 78,147 people have died in Germany.
As of the day, Germany had received 15,427,516 doses of the new crown vaccine, and a total of 4,633,839 people received the second dose.
Earlier, Merkel's ruling party, the CDU and the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia Raschelt, proposed on the 5th of this month to call on Germany to implement a 2-3 week hard "closed city" across the country.
On the 7th, Merkel, through the deputy spokesperson of the federal government, expressed support for the above proposal: "The requirements of the parties regarding the implementation of shorter but more stringent blockade measures are correct. On this issue, the implementation of the national government is required. The unified approach is also correct. The content of the current epidemic prevention regulations does not provide sufficient security and cannot be accepted by the public."
The governor of Bavaria, Zed, said on the same day that a company in the state has signed a pre-purchase agreement. Once the Russian-developed "Satellite-V" is approved by the EU regulatory authorities, the state will import the vaccine from July this year, and at the same time. Production is carried out at a factory in the prefecture.
Zeder said that Bavaria has pre-ordered about 2.5 million doses of the "Satellite-V" vaccine.
The European Medicines Agency is still conducting a rolling review of the "Satellite-V" vaccine and has not yet given a final result.
Previously, Austria, which is also an EU country, has already expressed its interest in buying this vaccine.
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