The Local Germany

Germany serves up Covid jabs in the company canteen

Sun, 23 May 2021 13:09:02 +0200

It's well before midday but chemical technician trainer Ralf Scharf is already heading to the company canteen. And lunch is the last thing on his mind.

Germany's BioNTech hopes for 12-15 year olds to receive Covid vaccine from June

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:26:27 +0200

BioNTech said Thursday that it expected its Covid-19 vaccine, jointly developed with Pfizer, to be available to 12-to-15-year-olds in Europe from June.

German police probe nurse who used 'saline solution in place of' BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 11:38:57 +0200

A nurse in Germany was under investigation Sunday after she admitted to swapping the coronavirus vaccine for a saline solution in six cases because she wanted to cover up that she had dropped a vial of BionTech/Pfizer.

Europe's Covid-19 'hotspots' to be sent four million more vaccine doses

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:54:37 +0100

The European Union will receive an extra four million BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine doses over the next two weeks to be deployed to Covid-19 "hotspots", European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.

No European deaths directly tied to Covid-19 vaccine, say scientists

Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:05:25 +0100

Scientists in Europe say evidence available so far does not incriminate the new anti-Covid vaccines in the numerous deaths of elderly and frail people shortly after they had received the coronavirus vaccine.

COMPARE: How fast are European countries vaccinating their populations?

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:45:14 +0100

Governments across Europe are hastily vaccinating their populations against the Covid-19 virus as infection rates remain worryingly high. We look at how some countries are having more success than others and the reasons why.

101-year old woman first to get vaccine in Germany

Sun, 27 Dec 2020 09:23:16 +0100

A 101-year-old woman in an elderly care home became the first person in Germany to be inoculated against coronavirus on Saturday, a day before the official vaccination campaign was scheduled to get underway in both Germany and the EU.

First doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine arrive in German regions

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 14:31:38 +0100

The first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine have now been delivered to all of Germany's 16 states, the country's DPA news agency has reported, ahead of the first vaccinations on Sunday

FOCUS: How BioNTech and Germany's 'Mittelstand' worked together on the vaccine

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 10:09:50 +0100

It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, "we need to fire the starting gun on this".

ANALYSIS: How close is Germany to receiving a Covid-19 vaccine?

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:58:10 +0100

The EU has reached a deal on a promising Covid-19 vaccine that is partially developed in Germany. What happens next and what does it mean for Germany?

The German husband-and-wife team behind the breakthrough Covid-19 vaccine

Sat, 14 Nov 2020 10:29:17 +0100

Progress on a Covid-19 vaccine has propelled the modest husband-and-wife team behind German firm BioNTech into the global limelight, with attention inevitably focusing on their background as the children of Turkish immigrants.

Pfizer cutting hundreds of jobs

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:20:00 +0200

The world’s biggest pharmaceutical firm Pfizer is cutting more than 500 jobs in Germany – around one in eight of the work places in the country, according to insiders who have spoken to the Handelsblatt newspaper.