Is everything on schedule?
This is how Jens Spahn sees the vaccination situation in Germany.
The Chancellor apparently sees it differently - she is now making the problem a top priority.
Berlin
- Large - perhaps too large - hopefuls
Germany
in
the corona vaccinations
plugged.
The slow progress of immunization in the country has been debated for days.
Even if
Health Minister Jens Spahn
(CDU) recently received broad support from his own party:
Chancellor Angela Merkel
(CDU) makes vaccination only a top priority.
A step that could well be understood as a
criticism of Spahn
.
The changed division is an idea from
Merkel's Chancellery
, writes about the
picture
.
The paper claims to have heard from someone involved in the planning that it could well be said that there was a
“disempowerment”
.
Up until now, the health minister had largely sole responsibility for vaccinations.
Merkel makes corona vaccinations a top priority - gossip between Spahn and Scholz?
Either way: First of all, the further measures in the lockdown will be discussed on Tuesday.
But already on
Wednesday (January 6th)
a new top round will discuss ways out of the vaccination misery.
Merkel is in charge of the team herself, as reported by the dpa.
In addition to Spahn, the Chancellor also wants to gather together Economics Minister
Peter Altmaier
(CDU), Finance Minister
Olaf Scholz
(SPD) and the head of the Federal Chancellery, her confidante
Helge Braun
(CDU).
The aim is to ramp up additional production in Germany as quickly as possible.
Possibly a strategically favorable move: Scholz and Spahn had apparently worked against each other rather than with each other, at least in public.
The
SPD chancellor candidate
had presented the head of the health department with a paper with critical questions about the vaccination situation.
The
working group
with Spahn, Altmaier, Scholz and Braun set up the Chancellor on Monday, the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
wants to
know.
Angela Merkel: Chancellor wants to boost vaccine production - possibly with Putin's help
Merkel's new
vaccination initiative
apparently also includes an international component: The Chancellor
spoke
with
Russia's President Vladimir Putin
about joint
vaccine production
, as the
Kremlin announced
on Tuesday.
Spahn should now take over again: The health ministries of both countries and specialists should continue talks on this, it said.
Details were initially not given.
In mid-August, Russia
approved
the
vaccine "Sputnik V"
for broad use in the population.
A second vaccine has now been registered.
In Russia, vaccinations have been running since the beginning of December.
Corona crisis in Germany: vaccine production is not the only problem - Commissioner criticizes federal states
However, vaccine production and procurement is not the only problem that Merkel and her ministers will have to grapple with.
The
federal nursing officer Andreas Westerfellhaus
demanded uniform regulations for corona vaccinations from the
federal
states.
Westerfellhaus said on Deutschlandfunk that there was a need for universal clarity for all those
entitled to vaccinate
how they would get their immunization.
He criticized the fact that in some federal states people were written to, in others they had to
try to
make
appointments
independently
.
There were also problems recently with hotlines for making appointments.
The trained nurse appealed to the nursing staff to be immunized.
This is what professional ethics demand.
There was harsh criticism of the federal government's vaccination strategy on Monday in a special broadcast of the ARD talk "Hart aber fair" *.
(
fn / dpa
) *
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