BioNTech will go to court on Monday to defend itself against a lawsuit from a German woman who is seeking damages for alleged side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine, the first of potentially hundreds of cases in the country.

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BioNTech faces first German lawsuit over alleged COVID vaccine side effects

The woman, exercising her right under German privacy law for her name not to be made public, is suing the German vaccine maker for at least 150,000 euro ($161,500) in damages for bodily harm as well as compensation for unspecified material damage, according to the regional court in Hamburg which is hearing the case and law firm Rogert & Ulbrich, which is representing her.

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【大紀元2023年06月14日訊】（大紀元記者余平德國報導）因疫苗副作用的問題，德國疫苗製造商BNT（BioNTech）面臨國內首個民事訴訟案。一名醫生稱，自己的健康受到嚴重影響，並要求賠償15萬歐元。 2020年初出現的冠狀病毒疾病致命疫情全球大流行，幾乎所有的國家都採取封城的措施，居民都被困在家裡，當時疫苗被視為救命稻草。很快，疫苗就投入市場並獲得了緊急使用授權。一些西方國家，包括德國都大力推行接種疫苗政策。 然而如今情況發生反轉，很多人投訴，疫苗損害了他們的健康並訴諸法律。在漢堡開庭的這例案件中，原告稱，她並不僅僅代表自己，也代表另外200多人。 在漢堡6月12日開庭的首例疫苗副作用案中，原告是漢堡一家醫院的醫生，她「原本身體健康」，然而接種疫苗後出現了心律病症狀。在200多頁的狀紙中她詳細描述了自己的病症：上半身疼痛、疲勞和睡眠障礙等，並且還附上了化驗結果、病假條等。她要求疫苗製造商BNT賠償15萬歐元，並賠償物質損失。 原告律師烏布里西（Tobias Ulbrich）表示，他…

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The plaintiff in Germany's first vaccine side effect case opens and claims 150,000 euros

A German resident has filed a lawsuit against BioNTech due to alleged negative side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine.
The plaintiff, a woman, is suing BioNtech for compensation of at least 150,000 euros ($161,226) for bodily harm allegedly resulting from its COVID-19 vaccine. According to the plaintiff, who has not made her name public, she suffered from swollen extremities, fatigue, sleeping disorder, and pain in the upper body following vaccina…

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First court hearing on BioNTech’s COVID vaccine postponed

Vaccine-maker BioNTech faced Monday its first legal claim in its home country of Germany over adverse effects allegedly suffered by some users of its Covid

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First Covid vaccine side-effect claims land in German courts

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By Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss HAMBURG (Reuters) - BioNTech will go to court on Monday to defend itself against a lawsuit from a German woman who is seeking damages for alleged side effects of

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