According to a report by Germany’s Standing Vaccination Commission, the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is only effective 8% in people over 65.

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is not very effective for people over 65, German coalition sources told tabloid Bild and Handelsblatt, a step which calls into question its suitability in mass vaccination programmes.

The German Standing Vaccination Commission sees no basis for recommending the use of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine for the group of over 65-year-olds.

This policy is based on an 88-page draft resolution by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) committee, dated January 26th.

The paper literally states: “The Covid-19 vaccine Astra-Zeneca is currently only recommended for people aged 18 to 64 based on the data currently available.”

Earlier, European Union threatened AstraZeneca to block its export of COVID-19 vaccines to other countries after AstraZeneca took 336 million euros from the EU for guaranteed orders and delivered vaccines elsewhere.