By KARIN ZEITVOGEL AND MARCUS KLOECKNER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 16, 2021
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. KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany New coronavirus infections in the Kaiserslautern area have plunged below the rate at which the government has said shops and small businesses can reopen, data posted by Germany’s public health agency showed Tuesday. The city of Kaiserslautern had 19 new cases per 100,000 residents over the previous seven days and the surrounding district had 19.8 cases, the Robert Koch Institute said on its website.
By JOHN VANDIVER AND MARCUS KLOECKNER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 18, 2020
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. STUTTGART, Germany The U.S. military could begin administering the coronavirus vaccine to health care workers and emergency responders in Europe within days, while German authorities are readying vaccination centers that could be open to military-affiliated Americans in some locations. “We are prepared to receive (the coronavirus vaccine) as early as next week,” Brig. Gen. Mark W. Thompson, head of Regional Health Command Europe, said in a phone interview Friday.