Germany Willing to Consider Russia’s Sputnik Covid-19 Vaccine
- Merkel spokesman says shot would need standard EMA approval
- German leader discussed Sputnik on Tuesday with Russia’s Putin
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Germany would consider buying Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine even if some of its European partners choose not to, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief spokesman.
Germany signed up to a program under which the European Union is in charge of sourcing most of the coronavirus vaccines bought by the bloc. However, Merkel’s government could envisage buying the Sputnik shot itself as long as it is approved in the normal way by the EU’s regulator, her spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said Wednesday at a regular news conference.