Jens Spahn is under criticism after the botched vaccination start against Corona in Germany.
Now the Federal Minister of Health is resisting it - and is naming a new goal.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The
vaccination start
against the insidious
coronavirus
is partly wrong.
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) is
clearly criticized
for the bumpy start of the
vaccinations against Covid-19
.
Now,
with a view to the
Corona
vaccinations
,
Spahn is
making
an ambitious promise: all residents of
German nursing homes should be
vaccinated by the
end of January
.
Munich / Berlin -
Jens Spahn
had to face the headwind.
Figuratively speaking.
In the
Corona lockdown in Germany,
one question currently
dominates
: Why was the start of vaccinations against
Covid-19
so slow and bumpy?
FDP
Vice-Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki
spoke
of a
“catastrophe vaccination start”
on
Focus Online
.
From today's perspective it would have been better to order “more and different vaccines” at risk, said Green health expert Kordula Schulz-Asche of the
world
.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: criticism of Jens Spahn after a difficult vaccination start
The facts?
A
total of
238,809 vaccinations were
sent to
the
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
by Sunday morning, January 3rd, despite delivery difficulties and other problems
.
The criticism of
Spahn
does not stop.
The
Federal
Minister of
Health has
now countered this - and made a spectacularly ambitious promise.
Namely:
Spahn
promised that all residents of
German nursing homes will be
vaccinated by the
end of January
.
“We can achieve this goal in January.
And we want to and will achieve that with the countries, ”he said at
RTL Aktuell
over the weekend
.
The minister, who is considered a confidante of
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)
, also tried repeatedly to rebut the latest allegations that he
really
missed the
start of
the
corona vaccination
.
There
had been corresponding criticism
from the
SPD
,
among others
.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Jens Spahn defends his work in the Covid-19 pandemic
"We have ordered enough
vaccine for Germany
and the EU," said
CDU
politician
Spahn of
the
Rheinische Post
(Monday edition).
The problem is the low production capacity at the beginning with extremely high demand worldwide.
“It was known that it would be tight at the beginning and that we had to prioritize,” said
Spahn
- and received support from the institutions of the European Union (EU), which was also severely criticized.
"The bottleneck is currently not the number of orders, but the global bottleneck in production capacities," said Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides of the
German Press Agency
.
"This also applies to
Biontech
." (
Pm
)