Germany is debating compulsory vaccination against the corona virus.
Health Minister Spahn continues to oppose it.
The delivery of the corona vaccines is slow.
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Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The number of
Covid-19 cases
will remain high at the beginning of 2021 and
strict corona rules apply
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.
The
start of the vaccination against Corona
continues to be slow - the wait for more
Covid-19 *
vaccine continues.
This
news ticker
on
vaccinations and vaccines in Germany
is constantly updated.
Update from January 13th, 10:06 am
: The
Moderna
Corona vaccine is being distributed in Germany.
The first 2,400 cans have
arrived
in
Brandenburg
.
But they might have to be thrown away.
There was obviously a problem with the cold chain.
"During the
transport,
under the responsibility of the
federal government,
from the nationwide
central depot in Quakenbrück
to the central contact point in Brandenburg, there could have been
problems with cooling
," said the spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Gabriel Hesse, when asked by the dpa news agency.
“We have to check that now.
We will only use the vaccine
when it is absolutely certain that
no errors have
occurred
during this transport
. "
The shortest route from Quakenbrück to Potsdam is 446 kilometers.
According to the Google Maps route planner, a car takes at least 4 hours 35 minutes.
The
Moderna vaccine
can be kept for a
longer period
if it is cooled to
minus 20 degrees
.
The vaccine is kept at refrigerator temperatures for 30 days.
The
Biontech vaccine
can be kept for
half a year
at
minus 70 degrees
.
In the refrigerator for up to five days.
Corona vaccinations: Spahn speaks out against mandatory vaccination
Update from January 13th, 8.11 a.m
.: In the discussion about
mandatory vaccinations, Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn continues to oppose it
.
According to the minister, he continues to rely on education and information, reports Deutschlandfunk (Dlf).
Spahn does not expect
all corona restrictions to be
relaxed
in the coming month
, it continues.
Because of the Corona mutations from Great Britain and South Africa, entry restrictions are being issued.
"We have to do everything to ensure that this mutation is registered as little as possible in Germany, in continental Europe," said Federal Minister of Health @jensspahn, CDU, on Deutschlandfunk.
- Deutschlandfunk (@DLF) January 13, 2021
Spahn today issued a government statement on the start of corona vaccinations.
A one and a half hour debate is scheduled after his speech.
Update from January 12th, 4.15 p.m
.: Once again,
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU)
*
commented
on the
corona vaccinations in Germany
.
"What is there is being reviled," said the Franconian at a media meeting this Tuesday.
As of
January 12, 140,000 people
in
Bavaria had received
their first
vaccination against the coronavirus
.
However, he was concerned about the lack of “vaccination”, explained the Bavarian head of government, and therefore called for another “vaccination campaign” with “role models”.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Karl Lauterbach is against mandatory vaccinations for nursing staff
Update from January 12, 1:15 p.m.: SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach
has repeatedly
spoken out
against
mandatory vaccinations in Germany
.
"We owe a lot to the nurses and shouldn't put them under pressure now," said the member of the Bundestag in an interview with
Welt live
with a view to the discussions on whether, for example,
doctors and nursing staff
should be
vaccinated
against the
coronavirus
.
Then in the next step you have to discuss "whether it is not the turn of the teachers or the bus drivers", said Lauterbach and said: "When we discuss the compulsory vaccination for professional groups, we will eventually find ourselves in short grass."
Corona vaccinations in Germany: will a third coronavirus vaccine soon be approved?
Update from January 12th, 12.15 p.m.:
Is the next
corona vaccine for Germany
coming
soon
?
Specifically: The British-Swedish pharmaceutical company
Astrazeneca
has applied for approval of its
corona vaccine
in the European Union (EU).
The
European Medicines Agency (EMA)
announced this Tuesday at its headquarters in Amsterdam that a
decision on the application for conditional marketing authorization could probably be made at the end of January
.
So far,
the vaccines of
the German-American cooperation
Biontech / Pfizer
and the US manufacturer
Moderna have been
approved
in the EU and
Germany
in the fight against the
coronavirus
.
In view of limited production capacities and huge demand, there are delivery problems that will probably only be resolved in the coming months.
First report from January 12th
: Munich / Magdeburg - On Monday (January 11th) the time had finally come.
The
second Corona * vaccine
arrived in
Germany
, at least a first delivery of the American remedy from
Moderna
.
60,000 vaccine doses
in number, closely guarded by the German
Federal Police
during transport and by the
Federal Armed Forces
in a barracks with corresponding cooling systems in the district of Osnabrück.
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State capital of Saxony-Anhalt: Magdeburg.
© imago images / Panthermedia
Vaccines against the coronavirus: Vaccines against corona are slow in Germany
While
vaccinations against the insidious coronavirus *
with the
vaccine BioNTech / Pfizer
because of limited production capacity in the
hard corona lockdown
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more sluggish (including some apparent criticism), the first state has
vaccinated
significant concessions and
relaxations
promised.
In: Precisely,
Saxony-Anhalt
have citizens entering from Covid-risk areas again in the state, not in
Corona
* Quarantine
when a "full completed vaccination against the
coronavirus
*
have" behind.
Actually.
Because once again there is irritation.
The problem is apparently as follows: As the
picture
(behind a payment barrier) reports,
Saxony-Anhalt
immediately implemented a new "sample ordinance on quarantine measures" - allegedly on the suggested proposal of the
Federal Ministry of
the
Interior in Berlin
.
From the Ministry of Horst Seehofer (CSU).
Corona vaccinations in Germany: In the coronavirus pandemic, special rights for vaccinated people are being debated?
Accordingly, the federal government wants to planned
special rights for Vaccinated
deleted from the draft again - perfect would be the next federal competence chaos in this
coronavirus pandemic
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