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10.03.2021 / 19:47

Germany expects steady rise in vaccine supply through July

BERLIN – The German government said Wednesday it expects the supply of coronavirus vaccines to rise steadily in the coming months, hitting a peak of almost 10 million doses a week in July.

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Germany prepares way for its troops to stay in Afghanistan

BERLIN – The German government is preparing the way for the country's troops in Afghanistan — the second-biggest contingent in a NATO force — to stay in place until next year if needed.

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Germany mulls tighter shutdown as coronavirus variants fuel fears

Also Read | What 2020 did to India’s inequalityThe measures ordered until the end of January have brought about a "flattening of the infections curve", said Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert, noting also that the number of patients in intensive care had also fallen slightly."This trend is cautiously positive and a success of the restrictions of the last weeks," he said."But it only brings us to the point where we still have a long way to go before we can say we have the infections under control," he added.Virus variants first seen in Britain and South Africa also posed major risks to whether the falling infections trend could be sustained, added Seibert.The crisis talks between Merkel and state premiers were brought forward by a week

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Germany: OPCW says nerve agent used in Navalny poisoning

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman says a global chemical watchdog group has confirmed Germany and other countries' findings that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was the victim of an attack with a Soviet-era nerve agent.Steffen Seibert said in a statement Tuesday that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, or OPCW, had carried out its own analysis of samples taken from Navalny, and they "agree with the results already from special laboratories in Germany, Sweden and France.”“This once again confirms unequivocally that Alexei Navalny was the victim of an attack with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group,” Seibert said.He renewed Germany’s call on Russia to fully investigate and explain

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German govt: Labs confirm Navalny was poisoned with Novichok

BERLIN – The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok.A German military laboratory previously confirmed the substance in his samples.German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Monday that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has also received samples and is taking steps to have those tested at its reference laboratories.Navalny fell ill on a Russian domestic flight on Aug.

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Poisoning of Putin opponent renews spotlight on deadly Russian chemical weapon

Science's News StaffA notorious nerve poison is back in the news. The German government said today that Alexei Navalny, a prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was poisoned with a chemical similar to Novichok, a deadly nerve agent implicated in other attacks on Russians who have crossed the current regime.A German military laboratory has found “unequivocal evidence of a chemical nerve agent of the Novichok group” in biological samples taken from Navalny, who was flown to Germany for treatment after being hospitalized in Siberia on 20 August, government spokesperson Steffen Seibert said.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel tests negative for coronavirus

Angela Merkel's initial test for coronavirus has returned a negative result, but the German leader's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, told news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur that "further tests will be conducted in the coming days".

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Angela Merkel in quarantine after her doctor tests positive for coronavirus

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is self isolating after coming into contact with a doctor who has tested positive for coronavirus.

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Merkel in quarantine after doctor tests positive for virus

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has gone into quarantine after being informed that a doctor who administered a vaccine to her has tested positive for the new coronavirus.

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