Germany urges patience with COVID vaccine rollout under fire
(WorldNews Europe)

Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Chancellor Angela Merkel`s government pleaded for patience as it pushed back against criticism that Germany bungled the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine. A shortage of doses at the start of the campaign was expected and stems from production bottlenecks rather than insufficient procurement, Health Minister Jens Spahn said Wednesday in Berlin. "We have to ask large parts of the population for patience," Spahn said. "We`ve ordered enough, more than enough...