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Huge setback: Germany is missing millions of vaccine doses - federal states "pissed off" at Spahn

2021-01-16T11:07:43.740Z


Due to delivery bottlenecks, Germany could be missing up to 2.6 million corona vaccination doses. The countries react to a crisis meeting with little amusement.


Due to delivery bottlenecks, Germany could be missing up to 2.6 million corona vaccination doses.

The countries react to a crisis meeting with little amusement.

  • Coronavirus pandemic in Germany

    : The number of

    Covid 19 cases

    is still high in January 2021.

  • In this mixed situation,

    Germany

    has to

    accept the next setback

    with the

    corona vaccinations

    .

  • Millions of doses of coronavirus * vaccine

    from US manufacturer

    Pfizer

    are

    unlikely to

    come as planned.

Update from January 16, 9:58 a.m.:

The world is still struggling with the

corona virus

.

While new mutations are spreading globally,

manufacturers

are trying

everything to provide as many countries as possible with new vaccine doses as quickly as possible.

In Germany, this is particularly true for the Mainz-based company Biontech and its US partner Pfizer.

At Pfizer, however, this initially leads to delays.

The Federal Ministry of Health had announced that Biontech / Pfizer would reduce their

vaccine deliveries

to

Germany

and other European countries

for three to four weeks

due

to renovation

work at a

Pfizer plant in Puurs, Belgium

.

"The

federal and state

health

ministers take note of this very short-term and unexpected communication from the Commission and Pfizer with regret," said the Ministry's announcement.

The plant in

Puurs

supplies all countries except the

USA

.

+

In the fight against the corona virus: Biontech partner Pfizer wants to further expand its vaccine production in Puur, Belgium.

© Jonas Roosens

Authorities approve vaccine production by Biontech in Marburg, Hesse

In the longer term,

however

, the

production capacities are

to be increased considerably.

"From the week of January 25th, we will return to the original delivery schedule,"

Biontech

declared

in Mainz on Friday.

After 100 percent of the

vaccine doses guaranteed in Europe

could

initially be

delivered,

deliveries

would

even increase

from February 15

.

A new

production facility

in

Marburg

,

Hesse, will also

contribute to this.

The site got the green light from the authorities on Friday.

Millions of vaccine deliveries are missing - countries learn about it from the media

Update from January 15, 6.46 p.m.:

Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU)

informed

his

country colleagues

this afternoon

about the possible lack of vaccination doses from Biontech and Pfizer (see original message from 3 p.m.) in a

crisis meeting

.

Only then did the news run across all media channels.

According

to information from the

picture,

the health ministers of the federal states

reacted accordingly

"pissed off"

.

Something like this should "not be found out from the media", was said at the meeting.

Vaccine breakdown at Pfizer - Pfizer boss wants to catch up according to von der Leyen

Update from January 15, 5 p.m .:

Despite delivery delays for the

corona vaccine

, the US pharmaceutical

company Pfizer has

announced that all

vaccine doses

guaranteed to the EU for the first quarter

will also be delivered in this

quarter

.

The CEO of

Pfizer

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised that in a phone call.

“He personally takes care of shortening the delay time and ensuring that it is made up as quickly as possible,” reports von der Leyen.

Due to renovation work at the Belgian

Pfizer plant

in Puurs, the group

informed

the German

Ministry of Health

about a temporary reduction in deliveries

on Friday

.

Corona vaccine in Germany: US company Pfizer announces delivery delays

Original message from January 15, 3 p.m .:

Munich / Berlin - The next damper for

Germany

in the fight against the

coronavirus

*

!

Apparently, the millions of planned

Corona *

vaccine doses

do not

arrive

on time in Germany.

Coronavirus vaccine: next vaccination disaster for Germany - Pfizer delivery sometimes does not come

According to various media reports, the

US pharmaceutical company Pfizer

Europe has warned against delivery cuts.

"The temporary cut will affect all European countries," said the state health institute in Oslo, the Norwegian authorities had been informed of the delivery bottlenecks.

According to

Bild

,

Germany

is currently

lacking

significant amounts of the planned

vaccine

.

This involves around 2.6 million

vaccination

doses, i.e. for

vaccinations of around 1.3 million people

.

Coronavirus vaccinations in Germany: Health Minister Jens Spahn calls a crisis meeting

As

Bild

further reports,

Federal

Health Minister

Jens Spahn (CDU)

convened a short-term crisis meeting with the health ministers of the federal states this Friday afternoon (January 15).

This conference will discuss how to proceed - and probably also about the communication of the

next vaccination disaster.

What are the reasons for the delivery bottleneck from the United States?

According to the

Norwegian Institute for Public Health

, the US group, which is working on development with the German company Biontech from Mainz, has given restructuring as a reason, which is in connection with planned capacity expansions in the production of vaccines.

Corona vaccinations in Germany: Patience is still required with the Covid-19 vaccines

Waiting for larger quantities of the

corona

vaccines

- more and more patience is required.

And for now there is no end in sight.

(pm) * Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network

Source: merkur

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