Coronavirus pandemic hyperbaric chamber: At the start of corona vaccinations in Germany, there are always breakdowns and delays.
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Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The number of
Covid 19 cases
is
very high nationwide
in
December
and around
New Year's Eve
.
Corona * risk groups
and particularly important medical personnel have been
vaccinated
against the insidious
coronavirus *
in
Germany
since December 27th
.
The delivery of tens of thousands of
vaccine doses to Berlin
fails without replacement - huge criticism of the plans by
Health Minister Jens Spahn
.
(
see update from December 30th, 1 p.m.
)
This
news ticker
is constantly updated.
Update from December 30, 10:12 p.m.:
According to information from
Spiegel
,
Biontech
has
submitted
an application to
the European Medicines Agency
Ema
to change the approval conditions.
This is an important step because it could make millions of additional
vaccinations
possible.
Doctors have so far been allowed to withdraw five vaccine doses from a vial provided.
In the future, six should be allowed - according to the report, the Mainz manufacturer is committed to this.
Because leftovers have been disposed of so far.
Der
Spiegel
had already learned from Ema beforehand that it would “quickly” examine such an application, if it was submitted.
In other countries six doses are possible if the extraction succeeds.
Health Minister
Spahn
had already spoken out in favor of obtaining six vaccine doses from the bottles.
Corona vaccination in Germany: Ministry of Health reacts to reports of delivery failures
Update from December 30th, 4.48 p.m.:
After the reports about the
failure of the vaccine deliveries
in the first week of January, the
Federal Ministry of Health
from Jens Spahn (CDU)
*
reacted.
It announced on
: "We have agreed with BioNTech that the next vaccine delivery of 670,000 doses - as originally planned - will take place next week, on January 8, 2021." According to this, all
federal states
should now be
in the first Received new vaccine shipments in the week of January.
We have agreed with #BioNTech that the next vaccine delivery of 670,000 doses - as originally planned - will take place next week, on January 8, 2021.
@BioNTech_Group
- BMG (@BMG_Bund) December 30, 2020
A
health ministry
spokesman
told
Focus Online
that
1.3 million vaccine
doses had been delivered by the
end of this year
.
"Today's delivery also covers the first week of January according to Biontech's planning," he added.
Following January 8th, the next delivery should take place on January 18th.
After that there should be a
delivery
every Monday every
week
.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: failure of deliveries in the first week of January
Update of 30 December, 15:23:
From the
failure of the vaccine deliveries
in the first week of January is not only Berlin,
Brandenburg
and
Bavaria
affected.
"This affects
all federal states
equally," said Brandenburg Health Minister
Ursula Nonnemacher
(Greens) at a press conference on Wednesday.
There are currently
delivery problems
with the corona vaccine.
Update from December 30th, 2:58 p.m.:
In addition to Berlin, the federal states of
Brandenburg
and
Bavaria should
not receive any further corona vaccine
in the first week of January
.
"The state of Brandenburg will also not receive any vaccine delivery in the first week of January," the relevant state health ministry announced on
on Wednesday
.
The country #Brandenburg will not receive any vaccine delivery in the first week of January either - countries received this information today.
https://t.co/ItVGhEju7M
- MSGIV Brandenburg (@MSGIV_BB) December 30, 2020
The Bavarian Health Minister
Melanie Huml
(CSU) announced on Wednesday: "As we learned from the federal government today,
Bavaria
will
probably not receive a vaccine
delivery
in the first week of January - contrary to the previous promise." For her it is incomprehensible, like a complete
delivery
can simply be omitted
with the current
infection
numbers, she criticized.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: huge criticism from Berlin of Jens Spahn's plans
Update from December 30th, 1 p.m
.: The
vaccination start in Germany
or its organization is bumpy.
Specifically: As the
Berliner Zeitung
reported on Wednesday afternoon, there will be no further
vaccine against the insidious corona virus
for the federal capital with its around 3.7 million inhabitants in the first week of January
.
Accordingly, it should only start again from January 11th.
Berlin
should actually have received a further 29,250 vaccine doses on January 11th.
"We have now received the message from the Federal Ministry of Health that the delivery will be canceled without replacement in the first calendar week," explained Health Senator Dilek Kalayci (SPD): "This is now causing us great difficulties because we have made our plans based on these commitments. "
Berlin
would have
needed the
expected
Covid 19 vaccination doses
“to be able to start with the over 80s.
Of course we can't do that now, ”continued Kalayci.
She criticized the
vaccination plans
on the part of the federal government.
Kalayci said urgently: “I have a request to the federal government to organize the delivery a little more stably and quickly.
We can't prepare everything here and then get such a brake.
I'm pissed off.
The shortage of the
vaccine
remains a problem for the vaccination start in
Germany
. "
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Under pressure in the Corona crisis: Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) and Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).
© imago images / photothek
Corona vaccinations in Germany: the largest vaccination center in Berlin is closing again
Update from December 29th, 4 p.m
.: The breakdowns around the start of the
corona vaccination in Germany *
are endless.
Long queues formed in
Berlin's
largest
vaccination center
in the
Treptow
district
at the start of
vaccinations
against the insidious
corona virus
on Sunday (December 27).
However, as the
picture
reports, not as many people were vaccinated as intended.
According to this, just 228 injections were given on Sunday, and fewer people than planned came for
vaccinations
on Monday
.
The reason: In the old people's and nursing homes in the capital, hardly any employees were released for
vaccinations
between the years due to a lack of staff
.
According to the order they should be the first * to be
vaccinated
in
Germany
alongside the
Covid 19 risk groups
.
Because so few nurses actually come to the appointments planned for them, the largest
vaccination center in Berlin
will close
for four days over New Year's Eve and New Year, the report said.
Actually,
up to 5,000 corona vaccinations are
planned
in Treptow every day
.
But the start remains bumpy.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Stralsund case - woman is still in the clinic after five times the dose
Update from December 29th, 3:30 p.m
.: After
Covid-19 vaccinations broke down in a Stralsund nursing home
, more and more details are becoming known.
As a spokesman for the
district of Western Pomerania-Rügen reported
on Tuesday, a woman
is still being treated in a clinic
because of the increased
corona vaccination dose
.
She therefore suffers from flu-like symptoms such as headaches or dizziness.
The other seven people affected were discharged from the hospital on Sunday, the same day the vaccination mishap occurred.
Eight nursing home workers were accidentally given five times the vaccine dose on Sunday.
How did it come about?
Then the eight glasses were all that 40 people were supposed to be vaccinated with.
Spokesman for the district of Western Pomerania-Rügen
Contrary to the instructions of the
vaccine manufacturer Biontech / Pfizer
, a nurse mixed the contents of the glasses with the correct amount of saline solution.
Then she gave the doctor syringes with the full content instead of just a fifth of the volume for vaccination.
“She did that eight times.
Then the eight glasses were all that were supposed to be vaccinated for 40 people, "said a spokesman for the district.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Member of the Bundestag from Stuttgart criticizes appointment allocation
Update from December 29, 12:08 p.m
.: "It cannot be that you start a vaccination campaign and then cannot get any appointments," said
Karin Maag,
health policy spokeswoman for the Union parliamentary group, to the
Augsburger Allgemeine
.
The member of the Bundestag from Stuttgart wanted to arrange a vaccination appointment for her 85-year-old mother on the service hotline 116117 - in vain.
“These are rookie mistakes. That annoys me
, "she told the newspaper.
Maag
demanded that Health Minister
Jens Spahn
should develop a uniform strategy with his country colleagues to make it easier to make appointments.
The federal government provides the vaccines, but the federal states and districts themselves take care of the distribution and, above all, the organization. Therefore, appointments are made differently in each federal state.
Sometimes appointments are automatically distributed and only communicated by post.
Elsewhere, appointments must be booked over the phone or on the Internet.
The nationwide patient service, which
can be reached
on
116117
, is also used, but not in every federal state.
Politicians as Corona vaccination model?
I have been asked about it several times.
I like to get vaccinated even if it's not my turn yet.
What do you mean?
- Karin Maag (@MaagKarin) December 22, 2020
In Bavaria, appointments must be made directly at the
responsible vaccination center
.
The Ministry of Health offers a postcode search that can be used to find the correct telephone number.
An
online booking system
is still under construction and should be activated in January.
Vaccine breakdown in Upper Franconia: has the cold chain been broken?
Update from December 28, 9:52 p.m
.: The
corona vaccine
should be stored at minus 70 degrees.
It became clear in Upper Franconia (Bavaria) that the problem lies in the details.
A planned vaccination was stopped twice because there were doubts about the correct cooling.
But the error has now apparently been found: One of the reasons for the differing data was probably that the sensor itself was too warm.
This had not been pre-cooled.
All vaccines from this transport now have to be tested again.
.
Vaccination start in Germany: Pfizer vaccine contains more active ingredient than needed
Update from December 28th, 3:10 p.m.:
Surprising news from the Federal Ministry of Health.
The
vaccination bottles of
a corona vaccine are in focus.
The bottles are designed for five cans.
But
six vaccinations can
be obtained from it, according to an information paper available to the AFP news agency.
The vials supplied by Pfizer and Biontech thus apparently contain
more vaccine
than necessary.
Is this great news, especially given the ongoing delivery problems?
Unfortunately there is a catch.
The withdrawal of six cans from a single bottle is
not covered
by the
EU approval
.
Doctors treating the patient would be putting themselves at legal risk.
Each vaccine dose must
contain
0.3 millimeters of the vaccine
, explains the ministry further.
Mixing is strictly prohibited, however.
Under no circumstances should excess
vaccine
from several vials be poured together to form one dose.
It is the responsibility of the vaccinating doctor to ensure that they have 0.3 milliliters of the vaccine in their syringe.
Germany: Corona vaccinations breakdown - Several vaccinated people after five times the dose in hospital as a precaution
Update from December 28, 1:50 p.m
.: Serious breakdown during the first
corona vaccinations in Germany
!
Due to individual errors in the preparation of the
vaccine
, eight employees of a
nursing home in Stralsund were
given five times the dose of the
corona vaccine
on Sunday (December 27)
.
The district administrator of the Vorpommern-Rügen district, Stefan Kerth (SPD) announced this Monday.
Accordingly, four of the eight people affected showed
flu-like symptoms
.
As a precaution, they were admitted to a hospital for observation, it is said.
Local reactions at the injection site and flu-like symptoms occurred in a dose-dependent manner and were generally mild to moderate and temporary, according to the district.
Manufacturer
Biontech
confirmed this information.
According to
Biontech
, test subjects in the
vaccine
tests were given
up to 100 micrograms without serious consequences.
The usual dose is 30 micrograms, according to the manufacturer.
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Sindelfingen: A man is vaccinated in a nursing home by a member of a mobile vaccination team at the Stuttgart Clinic with a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
(Symbol image)
© Marijan Murat / dpa
Coronavirus vaccinations in Germany: Jens Spahn - No privileges for corona vaccinated people
Update from December 28, 12 noon:
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU)
rejects privileges for
corona-vaccinated people
.
“Many are waiting in solidarity so that some can be vaccinated first.
And those who have not yet been vaccinated expect the vaccinated to be patient in solidarity, "said Spahn to the newspapers of the
Funke media group:
" Nobody should demand special rights until everyone has had the chance to be
vaccinated
.
We are fighting
the
pandemic
together - and we will only overcome it together: "
Corona vaccinations in Germany: vaccination start against the coronavirus started too late?
First report from December 28th
:
Munich -
Germany
has been
vaccinated
against
Covid-19
*
since December 27th
.
In the middle of the
hard lockdown
*
it started.
Too late?
At least that's what the boss of a
vaccination center in Saxony-Anhalt
claims
.
“It was always said: at Corona, every day counts.
We had the vaccine on Saturday and were ready - then why should we wait until Sunday?
Nobody understands that.
I'm glad we got started right away, ”said Immo Kramer, vaccination boss in the Harz district, of the
picture
.
Coronavirus vaccinations in Germany: In the Harz (Saxony-Anhalt) vaccinations were carried out a day earlier
He and his helpers just started earlier, on December 26th, Boxing Day.
Federal
Minister of
Health Jens Spahn (CDU)
and
Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) *
knew about it - nothing at all!
And they looked pretty much taken by surprise.
"We all EU partner countries and with the 16 states agreed to deliver and on Saturday all starting Sunday to start together with the vaccination," a spokesman said
Spahn
of the
Bild newspaper
.
Saxony-Anhalt's head of state Haseloff
said: “I heard about it from the Federal Minister via SMS and was just as surprised as he was.
But I can only explain it this way, that the pressure has built up there to get started as quickly as possible. "
Coronavirus vaccinations in Germany: Sharp criticism of the vaccination start policy by Jens Spahn (CDU)
Meanwhile
, Kramer, a man in the first line of
Corona
*
vaccination, continues to
build pressure
on federal politics.
“You know, we work here for our Harz population, for people who live here and not for individual politicians who want to give the go-ahead or cut a ribbon.
This is our obligation and we want to meet it, "he said to the
picture
:" I see no medical or logistical reason to hold such a Zinnober here (
unnecessary effort, d. Ed
.).
When we are ready, we want to get started.
The people here in the
Harz
want to be vaccinated. "
Among other things, due to advertisements from
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
, the EU member states had agreed to start vaccination on the same day.
And that obviously does not meet with understanding everywhere.
(pm)
* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network
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Michael Kappeler