There is good news from the Biontech vaccine.
The Moderna vaccine should also arrive in Germany on Monday.
However, Spahn rigorously rules out one thing.
The news ticker.
The
vaccination strategy
* has been
severely criticized
by the
federal and state governments for
days
.
The
EU Commission
has signed a contract for up to 300 million additional doses of the
Biontech vaccine
against the coronavirus *.
Something is happening with Moderna's corona vaccine.
This
news ticker
on
coronavirus vaccinations in Germany
is updated regularly.
Update from January 11, 10:29 a.m
.: After a long back and forth - the
corona vaccine from Moderna
should arrive in Germany today.
Health Minister Jens Spahn
confirmed this
on Monday in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”.
The first cans will then be delivered to the federal states from a central point on Tuesday (January 12).
But there will be
no option
between the vaccine from
Moderna
and
Biontech / Pfizer
.
The amount is too small for that.
Spahn expects two million cans of Moderna for Germany by the end of the quarter, and 50 million cans over the course of the year.
If there is enough vaccine available, family doctors could also give vaccinations.
That will happen in the course of the year, but you need "a lot of vaccine".
According to the Robert Koch Institute (as of January 10)
,
533,000 people
in Germany have received
the
first vaccination against Covid-19
so far
.
You can find out more about the current corona situation in Germany here.
Corona vaccination in Germany: Spahn writes a petition - "I would be grateful ..."
Update from January 8, 7:37 p.m
.: Apparently
Jens Spahn (CDU)
asked
the
pharmaceutical industry
for help.
"I would be grateful if you could tell me whether there are companies in your association that can contribute to increasing the production of COVID-19 vaccines or are already trying to do so" - this is what a letter from State Secretary Thomas sounds like Steffen to several industry associations, including the newspaper
die Welt
reports.
The company should answer “in the short term”, it probably said.
Efforts to combat the
pandemic are to
be bundled as
soon
as possible.
The answers shouldn't sound encouraging - a production changeover would require several weeks in advance.
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Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) could have ambitions for the candidacy for chancellor (archive picture).
© Reiner Zensen / imago
Corona vaccination in Germany: Spahn hopeful - "More vaccine, more protection, less target"
Update from January 8th, 4:59 pm:
"This is
a good day in the fight against the pandemic,
" said Health Minister
Jens Spahn
(CDU) on Friday of the dpa.
In view of the latest events, he was hopeful about the
corona vaccination
in
Germany
and the EU.
“We can use
more doses of vaccine per ampoule
.
The second vaccine manufacturer will
deliver next week
.
The third vaccine is
about to be approved
.
We are
entitled to
additional vaccination doses
through the new EU contract with Biontech.
And we are counting on the production site in
Marburg
going online in February, ”said
Spahn
, summarizing
the day's events.
"That means: more vaccine, more protection, less target for the virus," he continued.
Corona vaccinations: decision on AstraZeneca approval possibly by the end of January
The EU Medicines Agency
EMA
could
decide
on the
approval of
the vaccine from the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company
AstraZeneca
by the end of January
.
It is expected that AstraZeneca will
apply for
a
conditional marketing authorization
next week
, the authority announced on Twitter on Friday.
Depending on the available data and their evaluation, the process could then be completed
at the end of January
.
After having received more data from the company, EMA is expecting Astra Zeneca to submit a conditional marketing application for its # COVID19vaccine next week.
Possible conclusion - end of Jan, depending on data and evaluation progress.
# EMAPublicMeeting2
- EU Medicines Agency (@EMA_News) January 8, 2021
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Countries should receive the first Morderna delivery on Tuesday
Update from January 8, 3:20 p.m.:
The
corona vaccinations
with the vaccine from the US manufacturer
Moderna
can
begin
in
Germany
in the coming week.
The federal states should receive the first delivery of the preparation on Tuesday, said a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Health on Friday at the request of the dpa.
Germany is
to
receive
over
50 million of
the more than 160 million Moderna vaccine doses ordered
across the
EU
.
In the
first quarter, however
, due to the initially limited production capacity, only
just under two million Moderna cans
will come to Germany.
According to the
EU Commission, the
entire 160 million cans are to be
delivered by September.
Is Germany getting enough vaccination doses for the entire population?
Yes, because: When ordering, Germany and the EU relied on different vaccines that are gradually being approved.
You can find more information here: https://t.co/NX58ROWOzp pic.twitter.com/tIluMLZbCO
- BMG (@BMG_Bund) January 8, 2021
According to the current status
,
Germany is
to
receive a
total of
140 million corona
vaccination
doses
from Biontech / Pfizer and Moderna.
Around 60 million cans from Biontech / Pfizer are to go to Germany
from the
EU treaties
, and another 30 million from bilateral agreements.
According to the Federal
Ministry of
Health, the around 140 million doses are enough
to create
herd immunity
in Germany.
Corona vaccination: Moderna vaccine approved in the UK
The
Corona vaccine
of
Moderna
was after the EU on Friday in
the UK
admitted.
The British government announced in London.
After the vaccine from Biontech / Pfizer and the domestic vaccine from the University of Oxford and the Astrazeneca group, it is already the
third preparation
that can be vaccinated in the country.
Great Britain has ordered
17 million doses of
the Moderna drug.
Corona vaccination: In future, six instead of five doses from a Biontech / Pfizer ampoule
Update from January 8, 12:43 p.m.:
From now on, more people can be
vaccinated
with the
corona vaccine
from an ampoule from the manufacturers Biontech and Pfizer.
The European Medicines Agency (
EMA)
has allowed
six instead of the previous five doses
to be drawn from an ampoule, said a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Health in Berlin on Friday.
Update: EMA's human medicines committee (#CHMP) has recommended updating the product information for the Comirnaty # COVID19vaccine to clarify that each vial contains 6 doses of the vaccine: https://t.co/bTEgnpdvFA pic.twitter.com/0NZkVuYS4y
- EU Medicines Agency (@EMA_News) January 8, 2021
A spokesman for the
Hamburg health authority
had previously
announced that it would take
six instead of five doses
from one bottle in the
future
.
"Based on information from the Federal Ministry of Health and the corresponding approval, Hamburg will now begin to use the sixth dose available in order not to waste any vaccine quantities," said
Martin Helfrich of
the dpa.
The vials are delivered "overfilled" by the manufacturer.
However, since the approval was only given for the removal of five cans, the remaining amount had to be disposed of with the bottles.
The head of the central
vaccination center
in the Hamburg exhibition halls,
Dirk Heinrich
, spoke of “wonderful news”.
"That means we can
vaccinate 20 percent more people,
" he explained to the dpa.
Corona vaccination: EU signs contract with Biontech / Pfizer - another up to 300 million doses
Update from January 8, 10:20 a.m.:
The
EU Commission
has signed a contract for
up to 300 million doses of
the corona vaccine from the Mainz company Biontech and its US partner Pfizer.
75 million cans of
it should already be available in the
second quarter of 2021
, said EU Commission chief
Ursula von der Leyen
on Friday in Brussels.
We make sure Europeans have sufficient doses of safe & effective # COVID19 vaccines.
We now enable EU countries to buy more doses of the 1st vaccine approved in EU.
They can now buy up to 300 million more doses of the # BioNTech / @ Pfizer vaccine.https: //t.co/vjZd0L17VL
- Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) January 8, 2021
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Montgomery criticizes different approaches of the federal states
Update from January 8, 9:57 a.m.:
The chairman of the World Medical Association,
Frank Ulrich Montgomery
, criticized the
different approaches of
the federal states when assigning
vaccination
appointments
.
That creates
confusion and anger
, he told the
Rheinische Post
.
Montgomery added that
there should have been a
nationwide identical route
to vaccination appointments via telephone and an Internet platform
from the outset
.
At the same time, the World Medical President defended the Federal Minister of Health
Jens Spahn
against continued criticism.
"Jens Spahn is
not to blame for
the shortage of the vaccine," said
Montgomery
.
"For his previous actions in the Corona crisis, he gets
a straight A
from me
."
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Frank Ulrich Montgomery, Chairman of the World Medical Association.
(Archive image)
© picture alliance / dpa |
Guido Kirchner
In addition,
Montgomery
stated
that he
could not understand
the
skepticism
among
nurses
about the
vaccination
.
"If there was a drop of vaccine left somewhere, I would get vaccinated immediately," he said.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Biontech / Pfizer products are also effective against mutations
Update January 8, 7:14
: Good news in the fight against
Coronavirus
: A report from the news agency
Reuters
, according to
The vaccine from the companies
Biontech and Pfizer
also
seems
to be effective against corona variants that occurred in Great Britain or South Africa, for example.
“We have now
tested
16 different
mutations
, none of which had any really significant effects.
That's the good news, "said one of Pfizer's leading viral vaccine scientists.
However, he made it clear: "That does not mean that the 17th will have no effects."
The study by Pfizer and the University of Texas Medical Department examined the blood of people
injected
with the
Biontech vaccine
.
It has been shown that the
vaccine
neutralizes
the
virus
even if the spike protein is changed, writes
Reuters
.
The study has not yet been peer-reviewed.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: new delivery is coming - change in vaccination strategy required
Update from January 8, 6:26 a.m.:
Today, Friday, the federal states are to receive a new delivery of the
Biontech vaccine
.
In total, they should
receive
almost
668,000 vaccine doses
.
The delivery should go directly from the manufacturer to the 27
delivery centers in
the countries.
The most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia receives the largest share with 141,375 cans.
Bremen gets the smallest share with 4875 cans.
The delivery was announced on this scale.
Since the start of the
vaccination campaign
, at least 417,060 people have been injected, as the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Thursday.
201,000 people received the vaccine for professional reasons, such as doctors and nurses.
In addition, the preparation has now been administered to more than 168,000 residents of nursing homes.
Saxony's Minister of Health Petra Köpping (SPD) called for a
change in the vaccination strategy
.
“So far, the vaccine has been distributed according to the population of the federal states.
I believe that other factors should also play a role in new deliveries, ”said the minister, according to a statement on Thursday evening.
In their opinion, a high proportion of older people should also be taken into account.
There are one million people in Saxony who are older than 65 years.
The state is particularly badly affected by the pandemic.
Corona in Germany: Race of vaccine manufacturers is picking up speed
Update from January 7th, 5 p.m.:
In the fight against the
corona virus
, the race of the various
vaccine manufacturers
has picked up more and more speed.
While the vaccine from the Mainz-based company
Biontech
has also been approved in the EU since December, the American colleague
Moderna
now
seems to be following
suit.
The Tübingen-based biotech company Curevac hopes
to follow suit
in
summer 2021
.
In order to speed up the process, the company has now announced a cooperation with the pharmaceutical company Bayer.
It is still unclear whether Bayer will
also take over the production of the vaccine in
addition to helping with
market-ready development
, according to the dpa.
Production of the vaccine is therefore not part of the current cooperation agreement.
CureVac and @Bayer join forces and signed a collaboration and services agreement.
Bayer will support the further development, supply and key territory operations of CureVac's # COVID19 #vaccine candidate #CVnCoV.
➡️https: //t.co/wEkb5yNvm6 pic.twitter.com/ObNzsKuDNF
- CureVac (@CureVacRNA) January 7, 2021
First report from January 7th, 4:35 p.m .:
The syringes are already
pulled out
all over Germany.
According to the Robert Koch Institute,
44,332 vaccinations
had already been reported
in Germany by Thursday
.
This increases the proportion of Germans vaccinated against the coronavirus to 0.5 percent.
Health Minister Jens Spahn warned in a
ZDF
interview on Thursday morning to be patient: “At the beginning it is now tight.
That was clear, and that's the way it is. ”The
Moderna vaccine
will also be scarce in the first few weeks, said
Spahn
.
"And then from the second quarter on, things will get better step by step."
The
Biontech vaccine
* has been approved in the EU
since December 27th
.
The
vaccination strategy of the federal and state governments
does not seem to have been under a lucky star since day one.
Again and again there is criticism of the pan-European distribution strategy * and numerous
mishaps
and organizational failures.
The
vaccine
* delivery
is one of the big problems.
The around
50 district vaccination centers (KIZ)
in
Baden-Württemberg
have to postpone their vaccinations again by a week - due to delivery delays.
"The reason for this is the vaccine deliveries by the federal government," said the Ministry of Health, according to dpa, on Thursday in Stuttgart.
The country has received almost 170,000 vaccine doses so far, all of which have already been raised or planned.
New vaccine delivery on Friday: is the distribution too slow?
According to dpa
, the
Federal
Ministry
of
Health
announced
another delivery of
667,875 vaccine doses
for
Friday
.
The delivery is to take place via Biontech * directly to the 27
delivery centers of
the countries.
In Baden-Württemberg, the corresponding vaccine doses go to the waiting
central vaccination centers
.
Only part of the next corona vaccine delivery from the federal government on January 18 will then be
made available
proportionally to the district
vaccination centers
.
Until then you have to wait.
There is simply not enough vaccine yet to bring the centers up to the county level.
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This is how the transport for the coronavirus vaccine in Germany works
© picture alliance / dpa / dpa graphic |
dpa-infografik GmbH
The slow start has other reasons as well.
For example, some of the corona vaccinations will be
withheld
for the
second vaccination previously classified as necessary
.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in
Baden-Württemberg also
emphasizes the different
distribution strategies of
the federal states: “A federal state that primarily relies on
mobile vaccination teams in nursing homes
will end up having a lower vaccination rate than a state that is already strong at the beginning vaccinates in centers. ”Vaccinations by mobile teams in nursing homes would have to be planned and journeys organized.
Moderna is approved in the EU: does the new corona vaccine give rise to hope?
Many hopes are placed on new
vaccines
* against the
coronavirus
that could improve this situation.
On Wednesday, the European Medicines Agency
EMA
recommended
the corona vaccine from the manufacturer
Moderna
.
However, some vaccination centers doubt that new, approved vaccines can quickly improve the situation.
"It is good that another vaccine has now been approved," said a spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Health of the German Press Agency.
This will relax the situation in the longer term.
"From one day to the next, however, the Moderna vaccine does not
allow
any significant
increase in vaccinations
in the state, since deliveries to Baden-Württemberg - as in all other federal states - will probably remain at a low level," he speculated.
Good news for our efforts to bring more # COVID19 vaccines to Europeans!
@EMA_News assessed that the @moderna_tx vaccine is safe & effective.
Now we are working at full speed to approve it & make it available in the EU.
- Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) January 6, 2021
One advantage of the
Moderna vaccine
, however, could be the
simpler delivery conditions
.
In contrast to the variant of the Mainz company
Biontech
, the
Moderna agent
does not have to be
cooled
to below
-70 degrees
during transport
.
Nevertheless, it will probably take a while before the distribution and delivery in Germany starts.
*
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