Health Minister Jens Spahn wants to set the vaccine regulation for Germany on Friday morning.
We report from the press conference in the live ticker.
The first people in Germany
are to be vaccinated
against the
coronavirus
*
this year
.
Federal Health Minister Jens
Spahn (CDU), the Friday around 11:00
Impfverordnung
ago.
We report from the
press conference
in the
live ticker
.
Berlin - Shortly after Christmas, the first people in Germany should
receive
the
vaccine
against the
Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus
received, at least if it comes to
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn
(CDU).
The last hurdle has to be the
vaccine
developed
by the German company
BioNTech
* in collaboration with the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer
previously approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
This should take place at the beginning of next week, then the Federal Republic would be ready for the first needle pricks.
Coronavirus: Health Minister Spahn presents vaccination regulations on Friday
The order in which the population
should receive
the
vaccination
is
particularly important
.
The corresponding
Impfverordnung
that will determine, among other things, this order will, Spahn on Friday morning around 11:00 pm at a
press conference
to present.
Early in the morning, the
Minister of Health
justified
the upcoming decisions in the
ZDF
morning
magazine
.
The
vaccinations
should therefore take place in three steps.
"We are now
starting
with people over 80, the
very
old,
those in
need of care
and those who look after them," says Spahn, explaining the first big step that
could take place
shortly after
Christmas
*.
“This group is already so large that
it will shape
the
vaccination process
in Germany for
the first time in the first few weeks
”, the
Minister of Health
explains
his decision.
For the rest of the population: "I just have to ask everyone else to be patient."
“We start #vaccinating with those who are particularly at risk: the very old, those # in need of care and those who care for them.
Everyone else has to be patient. “@Jensspahn in @morgenmagazin with @dunjahayali: https://t.co/sGDAB9a12m
- BMG (@BMG_Bund) December 18, 2020
Spahn explains German vaccination strategy against the coronavirus - "Where do we avoid fatal courses?"
These measures are primarily intended to protect those population groups for whom more severe courses of
Covid-19 are
to be expected.
"Where do we avoid
hospital admissions
, where do we avoid the most serious or even fatal courses," explains
Jens Spahn
.
In the second step, people aged 70 and over should then
receive
the
vaccination
.
In addition, there are other citizens who are expected to experience severe disease, as well as close contact persons for those in
need
of
care
and pregnant women.
In the third step, it is the turn of people over 60 years of age, as well as employees in “particularly relevant positions in state institutions”.
This should
include the
police
,
fire brigade
,
judiciary
and the
education sector
.
With the planned
vaccination ordinance
,
Spahn
apparently only partially
follows
the advice of the Standing Vaccination Commission of the Robert Koch Institute.
Among other things, this had suggested five instead of three groups that should be vaccinated one after the other.
+
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) at a debate in the Bundestag.
© Bernd von Jutrczenka / dpa
Coronavirus: Spahn passes vaccination ordinance - "Vaccination is the way out of this pandemic"
From 11 a.m. onwards, the
Minister of Health
will also present
the
vaccination ordinance
publicly and answer journalists' questions on site.
However, Jens Spahn made it clear early in the morning that apart from
vaccination,
there was no strategy for combating the
pandemic
*: “Despite all the skepticism, reluctance, and all questions that I take seriously:
vaccination
is the way out of this
pandemic
. “
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