Germany to offer Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to all adults

The move reverses a previous decision to restrict the AstraZeneca COVID shot to people above 60 years of age.

Germany will allow AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to adults of all ages and aims to offer 12-18-year-olds a vaccine by the end of August as it seeks to speed up its rollout, Health Minister Jens Spahn has said. The country’s 16 regional health ministers have agreed with Spahn to reverse a previous decision to restrict the AstraZeneca shot to people aged more than 60 years. He also said the current 12-week gap between first and second doses of AstraZeneca vaccinations could be shortened. “Both these measures serve to further to accelerate our vaccination campaign overall,” said Spahn on Thursday.