When are enough citizens in Germany vaccinated against the coronavirus?
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn, who has come under pressure, surprises with a new prognosis - and announces a second vaccine.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: the
start of vaccination against Covid-19
runs nationwide between
Berlin
and
Bavaria
very bumpy
before
New Year's Eve
.
Until when can all those who
want
to be
vaccinated in Germany be vaccinated
against the
coronavirus
?
Jens Spahn (CDU)
comes under pressure.
On December 29, the
Federal
Minister
of
Health
suddenly
corrected
his forecast of the expected
corona
herd immunity
- and very clearly.
Munich - Sudden and spectacular turnaround in the vaccination prognosis and the
Covid-19
policy
of
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU)
!
As
Spahn
explained
live
on Tuesday afternoon (December 29) at
Bild
, the goal is
to offer
“
herd immunity
by the middle of the year”.
Means: “We are working to ensure that we can make such an offer to anyone who wants to be vaccinated by the summer,” said
Spahn
and reiterated: “I am optimistic that we will all who want to be vaccinated in the first half of the to be able to make a vaccination offer next year. "
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Jens Spahn wants herd immunity by summer
The prerequisite, said the 40-year-old, is that we “will have one or two
vaccines
by the summer”.
He is
betting
that there
will soon be not just one
vaccine
(
Biontech / Pfizer
)
in
Germany
, "but - if
things go
well - a second one from next week, namely
Moderna
".
According to
Spahn, he
is also building on “additional production facilities, for example in
Marburg
.
As of today, it looks like it will be possible to start production there from February, ”the Union politician
continued
to tell
live
at
Bild
:“ The
Marburg plant
will mean that deliveries will be made much faster. ”The
German-American
vaccine doses
Manufacturer Biontech / Pfizer.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Jens Spahn significantly corrects herd immunity forecast
"As of today, I am very optimistic that there will be
mass vaccinations
in summer at the latest
",
Spahn
had
told
the news portal
t-online.de
at the beginning of December
and predicted that "we will be able to vaccinate across the board in doctors' offices in the summer".
So now it should go faster!
The Federal Minister of Health defended the decision to start
vaccinating
on December 27th instead of December 26th
, despite the
vaccination centers in Germany being
ready
to go.
"We don't just want to get through the pandemic well together in the next few months, but in the next few decades," he said, referring to the
European Union
.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Jens Spahn defends the EU's joint vaccination start
All EU member states had
jointly started
their extensive
vaccinations
against the
insidious coronavirus
on December 27, which was also criticized in view of the urgency of the situation.
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