BERLIN, March 25 (Reuters) - Germany’s lower house of parliament on Thursday voted in favour of a European Union plan to take on joint debt on a large scale and channel the money to member states worst hit by COVID-19, the Bundestag’s vice president said on Thursday. An unusually large majority of 478 out of an overall 645 lawmakers supported ratification, while 95 rejected the measure and 72 abstained, Dagmar Ziegler said. The law was backed by lawmakers from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc and the centre-left Social Democrats junior coalition partner as well as by members of the opposition Greens and the business-friendly Free Democrats. (Reporting by Michael Nienaber; Editing by Maria Sheahan)