Germany will become the first European Union country to start using the same experimental antibodies treatment credited with helping Donald Trump recover from Covid-19, health minister Jens Spahn said today. "The government has bought 200,000 doses for €400 million," Mr Spahn told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, working out at €2,000 per dose.
Patients will receive them free of charge, a health ministry spokeswoman told AFP. Two different kinds of so-called monoclonal antibody therapies will be made available to university hospitals from the coming week, with Mr Spahn saying Germany was "the first country in the EU" to deploy them in the fight against the pandemic.