Prognosis
Germany Plans Aggressive Vaccine Rollout After Slow Start
- Finance Minister Scholz says pace to pick up from end of March
- EU’s Breton says J&J dose to receive approval this week
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Germany will drastically speed up its coronavirus vaccination campaign and aims to get shots to as many as 10 million people a week from the end of March.
But such an ambitious target, mentioned by Finance Minister Olaf Scholz late on Sunday, would require Germany to turbo-charge a rollout that’s been underwhelming so far. It’s distributed about 7.3 million doses in total since inoculations started ten weeks ago, according to Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker.