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Vaccinations against Corona already in winter? German company reports decisive breakthrough

2020-10-22T06:39:51.730Z


The world is currently asking a central question: When will a corona vaccine be released that will end the pandemic? Now there seems to be a breakthrough.


The world is currently asking a central question: When will a corona vaccine be released that will end the pandemic?

Now there seems to be a breakthrough.

Hamm - New infections with the

coronavirus

* increase with the number of hotspots in Germany.

The end of the pandemic is far from in sight.

Wearing masks is now normal - at least for most of them.

The hoped-for salvation thanks to a

vaccine

is a long time coming - until now.

There seems to be a new

breakthrough

, as

WA.de

* writes.

vaccine

BNT162b2

Companies

Biontech

Seat

Marburg

The world is longingly waiting for a corona vaccine.

More than a million

coronavirus sufferers

have died so far.

In Germany alone there were more than 331,132 infected people (as of October 13, 2020).

A curfew was set up in Hamm on Tuesday *.

Researchers have been working hard on a

vaccine

against the

coronavirus

since around the new year

.

The World Health Organization currently has

193 vaccine projects

.

Corona vaccine: Breakthrough at Biontech - vaccinations possible in winter

The success?

Manageable.

After

AstraZeneca

, another major pharmaceutical

company

had to suspend an important

vaccine study

.

As the US drug manufacturer

Johnson & Johnson announced

, the

study was

temporarily

stopped

on Monday due to an unexplained

illness in

a subject.

Particularly bitter: The US company originally belonged to the very group from which the EU Commission

secured

hundreds of millions of

vaccine

doses because only one dose would be enough.

Others, however, require a second vaccination.

Does salvation come from Germany of all places?

The city of Bochum would be happy, it is on the way to the risk area *.

Corona vaccine: Breakthrough at Biontech - vaccinations possible in winter

As reported by

n-tv

, the newly developed

vaccine BNT162b2 by

the pharmaceutical company

Biontech

has successfully completed clinical trials.

The

mass production

has already begun, the final permit application is already pending.

It is said that one is on the verge of "putting an end to this pandemic".

The

vaccine

is now being tested in the so-called rolling review process in Amsterdam.

In April,

Biontech

was the first German company to receive approval to conduct clinical studies.

Around 37,000 participants have now been included in the study, 28,000 of whom have already received the second dose.

+

How does a possible corona vaccine affect everyday life?

© Christoph Schmidt / dpa

The

corona vaccine BNT162b2

has "an excellent profile," says Biontech boss Ugur Sahin in an interview with the

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

.

In addition, you are "slowly approaching the home straight," said Sahin.

The first

corona vaccinations

could already start in winter - regardless of the flu vaccinations recommended by experts.

And that without a long start-up phase.

"If all horses cross the finish line, we will have way too much

vaccine

," said Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn.

Corona vaccine: Biontech expects 350 million corona vaccine doses by summer 2021

It was only in September that

Biontech took over

the premises of the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis with 300 highly qualified employees in order to expand the production of the

corona vaccine

.

Biontech

is planning 100 million

Corona

vaccination

doses

this year, with another 250 million to follow in the first half of 2021.

Will everyday life then return to Germany and throw the mouth and nose protection in the trash?

The Robert Koch Institute is dampening initial expectations.

Even with the introduction of the

corona vaccine

, everyday life will initially remain restricted, according to

the RKI's

new

strategy paper

.

The

vaccination

was indeed "an important part of pandemic-fighting".

Nevertheless, measures would have to be adapted to the respective risk.

* wa.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.

List of rubric lists: © Christoph Schmidt / dpa

Source: merkur

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