A doctor accuses the federal government of having failed to procure corona vaccine.
Criticism is also growing louder from politics.
In
Germany
, vaccinations to protect against the
corona virus have
started.
A doctor from the
Leopoldina
accuses the
federal government of
“gross failure”.
There is also
criticism of the government and the EU
from politics because of the procurement of
corona vaccines
.
Berlin - In Germany,
vaccinations
to protect against the
coronavirus have
started.
Since the end of December, mobile teams have been on the road to vaccinate residents and staff in old people's and nursing homes and clinics.
A few days after the start of the
vaccination
campaign, the federal states are
already
reporting
difficulties
with the delivery of
vaccines
by the federal government.
A member of the National Academy of Sciences
Leopoldina
sees responsibility for the slow start of the
corona vaccination
with the
federal government
and accuses it of serious failures in the procurement of cans.
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The start of the corona vaccination in Germany is slow.
The criticism is getting louder.
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Corona vaccination: Leopoldina member accuses the federal government of failure in procurement
“I consider the current situation to be a gross failure of those responsible,” said neurologist Frauke Zipp of the newspaper “Die Welt”.
"Why didn't you order a lot more
vaccine
at risk
in the summer
?" Emphasized Zipp, who is the director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Neurology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and who advises the Rhineland-Palatinate state government.
“Recently there was still official commemoration of the dead, now apparently not every day on which human lives could be saved counts anymore.
Now patience is required, "criticized Zipp with a view to the
corona vaccinations
.
In Germany, if enough
vaccine is
available,
60 percent of the population
can be
vaccinated in two to three months, said Zipp.
The allegations from politics are also mounting.
FDP General Secretary Volker Wissing said that the criticism of the
vaccine
procurement “should be taken very seriously”: “We can see from the example of Israel and other countries that it is possible to vaccinate more quickly.
The federal government has to explain very well why things are going so slowly in Germany. "SPD health politician
Karl Lauterbach
speaks to the" Süddeutsche Zeitung "of an" unsatisfactory "situation.
In
his opinion, the
EU
“bought wrongly”
with the
corona vaccines
and acted too hesitantly.
Why is the vaccination start so slow and why are there so few corona vaccination doses?
The #Leopoldina says: It is due to the failure of those responsible.
Federal Minister of Health Jens #Spahn and his ministry are responsible.
#NieMehrCDU https://t.co/THyQ74iDI4
- Pirate Party (@Pirate Party) January 2, 2021
Allegations against the federal government: too few corona vaccination doses to start
In addition to Biontech board member Ugur Sahin, Left Chairman Bernd Riexinger was also “a little surprised at how few
vaccination doses
the EU has ordered”.
The
federal government
should now “quickly
issue
licenses for post-production of the
Biontech / Pfizer
vaccine”.
That lies directly in the hand of Health Minister
Jens Spahn
(CDU).
The virus mutation in Great Britain makes it clear: "A successful
vaccination strategy
is also a race against time."
Kordula Schulz-Asche from the Greens parliamentary group told the “world” that “from today's perspective it would certainly have been better to order more and different
corona vaccines
from over 100 developers at risk”.
However, she pointed out that the
Biontech
vaccine was also still in the test phase
in the summer
.
(lrg with AFP)
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