Prime Minister Angela Merkel, 66, about Astrazeneca's Vaccine Covid-19 injection, although this vaccine is causing concerns about clotting complications.

Two German news agencies Welt and Stern reported Mrs. Merkel to inject the first Astrazeneca vaccine on April 16, although Germany was one of more than 10 European countries limited using this vaccine after recording some cases

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If this information is authenticated, Merkel, 66, will be the highest leader in Germany injecting Astrazeneca vaccine.

Merkel spokesman refused to confirm the information, but noted that the government was announced at the beginning of the week that the German Prime Minister would soon get Vaccine Covid-19.

German Prime Minister Angela Merkel released a new Covid-19 wave in Berlin on April 13.

The European Pharmaceutical Agency said that the vaccine Astrazeneca brought far beyond the potential risk, especially with the elderly, who was able to get more severe if Covid-19 infection.

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was vaccinating Astrazeneca at the beginning of the month.

Politician Karl Lauterbach, the scientist who used to work at a vaccination center, also injected the same type, emphasized that this is "high efficiency vaccine", serious side effects "extremely rare".

Germany recorded more than three million Coven-19 cases and nearly 80,000 deaths.