World Coronavirus Dispatch: Germans shun 'second-class' AstraZeneca vaccine

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Germans shun AstraZeneca vaccine

Early January, many in Germany complained about the severe shortage of vaccines. A month-and-half later, Germans are complaining that they aren't getting the shot they want. Across the country, health workers and many others are refusing to sign up for the AstraZeneca jab, saying its the secondary option. Instead, Germans are preferring the vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNtech. As a result, two weeks after the first delivery of 1.45 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Germany, only 270,986 have been administered, according to data collected by the health officals. Read here

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