So we are now in the situation where a third of the British population has been vaccinated, with infection and mortality rates in decline.
Germany meanwhile has vaccinated just five per cent of its population. France has vaccinated only four per cent.
So deep is the distrust, that 80 per cent of the 6.1 million doses delivered to the bloc so far lie unused in hospital refrigerators.
Just a few days ago, Angela Merkel's spokesman pleaded with Germans to take 'the safe and highly effective' Oxford vaccine – although the message was clouded when 66-year-old Merkel then announced to the world that she would not be taking it because it is not appropriate for people her age!
In Britain, the Queen took a clear lead by declaring that anyone hesitant to take the jab should think of others and not themselves.
Germany's political elite is so convinced the EU can do no wrong that last year it criminalised the vilification of the EU flag, now punishable with up to three years in prison.
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The Scottish Ministry of Health has announced its real data. Here, too, it was shown that the hospitalization rate could be reduced by 85 percent with the Biontech vaccine and by 94 percent with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Der Impfstoff von AstraZeneca hat wohl zu Unrecht einen schlechten Ruf. Neue Daten aus England belegen: Das Vakzin wirkt viel besser als bisher gedacht.
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