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  • Uganda President Yoweri Museveni re-elected for 6th term
  • Thane civil surgeon Dr Pawar 1st recipient of Covid vaccine on its launch
  • Bengal joined rest of the country in largest vaccination drive
  • Over 1 million people vaccinated in Germany - Robert Koch Institute
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  • Odisha registers 81 per cent vaccination on first day of vaccination drive
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Over 1 million people vaccinated in Germany - Robert Koch Institute

Moscow, Jan 16 (Sputnik) As many as 1,048,160 people in Germany have already receive a vaccine from COVID-19, the Robert Koch Institute, a national authority for infectious diseases, said on Saturday.
Over the past 24 hours, nearly 80,000 people received the vaccine.
On Friday, media reported that Edith Kwoizalla, a 101-year-old woman residing in a care home in the town of Halberstadt, had become the first German to receive the second shot of the two-dose vaccine against coronavirus.
According to the data, 18,678 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in Germany, while 980 patients have died. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Germany recorded over 2 million cases of the infection and nearly 46,000 fatalities.
In late December, Germany launched a vaccination campaign against COVID-19, using the vaccine developed by companies Pfizer and BioNTech.
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