The December 27 start date - confirmed by European Union Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, Austria, Germany and Italy - will be almost three weeks after the world's first fully-tested Covid-19 vaccination was administered in England.
Health Minister Jens Spahn said before an online meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and executives from vaccine maker BioNTech that if the approval comes Vaccination will start from 27 the December .
As a member of the EU, Germany is obliged, by and large, to wait for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to approve the vaccine. The EMA is expected to make an announcement on December 21.
Von der Leyen confirmed the planned timetable for the start of inoculations for the European Union's 450 million citizens.
Italy said it would start vaccinating health workers on December 27, the Sunday after Christmas. Vaccinations will also start in Austria on that date, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Twitter .
Germany was looking forward to starting life-saving
vaccinations, a day after the country reported 952 deaths related to the
coronavirus, its highest daily number yet.
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