Germany’s COVID vaccine procurement labeled a ‘gross failure’
By DW
13 January 2021 |
11:00 am
The Berlin government is under increasing fire from experts and politicians for not buying enough doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to quickly roll out its immunization program.
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