Combination of vaccines: Merkel received a second …

The German leader Angela Merkel recently received a second dose of vaccine produced by the messenger RNA technique, from the US laboratory Modern, after receiving a first injection from Swedish-British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on April 16.

The 66-year-old chancellor received a first injection of AstraZeneca, the use of which was suspended for a time in Germany after having recorded several cases of thrombosis in Europe.

The use of this vaccine, which has been received by several German leaders, including the President of the Republic, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, is restricted in the country to people over 60 years of age.

Several countries, including Germany, have decided to apply a messenger RNA vaccine in a second dose, i.e. Pfizer / BioNTech or Modern, in what is called a “mixed vaccination schedule” after an AstraZeneca injection.

More than half (51.2%) of the German population, or 42.5 million people, have received at least one dose of the vaccine and 26.3 million (31.6%) are fully vaccinated, according to published figures Tuesday by the Robert Koch Institute.