Berlin (dpa) – The first doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine are to be distributed in Germany on Tuesday, two weeks after inoculations with the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine began.
Some 2 million doses of the Moderna vaccine are to arrive in Germany by the end of the first quarter and some 50 million doses by the end of the year, according to Health Minister Jens Spahn.
Like the product from German firm BioNTech and US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the one from Moderna is also a so-called mRNA vaccine.
Both vaccines are “equivalent in effectiveness and safety,” according to Thomas Mertens, head of the German vaccine commission.
Both vaccines require two jabs with three to four weeks in between.
Recipients will not have a choice as to whether they receive the Moderna vaccine or its equivalent from BioNTech/Pfizer.
More than 600,000 people have received the first vaccine dose against Covid-19 in Germany since the start of its inoculation drive, the Robert Koch Institute for disease control said.
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