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Corona in Germany: Senior woman from Weyhe dies shortly after the corona vaccination - autopsy now provides information

2021-01-18T21:22:50.840Z


Despite delivery bottlenecks and vaccination chaos: More and more high-risk patients in Germany are being vaccinated against the coronavirus. The latest developments in the news ticker.


Despite delivery bottlenecks and vaccination chaos: More and more high-risk patients in Germany are being vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The latest developments in the news ticker.

  • Coronavirus pandemic in Germany

    : The number of

    Covid 19 cases

    is still high in January 2021.

  • Millions of doses of coronavirus * vaccine

    from US manufacturer

    Pfizer

    are

    unlikely to

    come as planned.

  • The death of a

    senior citizen

    shortly after the

    corona vaccination made

    headlines.

Update from January 18,

12:14 p.m.: 1,048,160 people in Germany received the first corona vaccination, as the current situation report from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) shows on Sunday evening.

The corona vaccine is still scarce.

According to Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn, the delivery bottleneck was announced by Pfizer on Friday “a little at short notice”.

“Basically, we had the expectation that the delivery quantities would be met,” said Spahn on Monday at a press conference.

Pfizer is the key partner when it comes to delivery data and sales, says Spahn.

Planning vaccination appointments on site is so difficult.

Due to renovation work at the Pfizer plant in Puurs (Belgium), vaccine deliveries to Germany will be reduced in the next two to three weeks, the minister said.

During the construction work, the production capacities are to be expanded, but unfortunately this leads to delivery restrictions.

Biontech had already announced that it would be returning to the original schedule for deliveries from January 25th

(see also the update from January 16, 9:58 a.m.).

Corona vaccination - threshold of one million exceeded

Update from January 16, 8:34 p.m.:

On Saturday,

the number of

one million vaccinations was

exceeded

in

Germany

.

The

Robert Koch Institute

(RKI) reported a total of 1,048,160 vaccinations on Saturday, 79,759 more than the previous day.

The vaccination rate rose to

1.26 percent

.

So far, the first of two vaccine doses has been injected almost exclusively.

On Friday, some people in a nursing home in Halberstadt in

Saxony-Anhalt received

the

second dose for the first

time.

Since the vaccination campaign began around three weeks ago, the number of complete vaccinations should increase significantly in the coming days.

After the second injection, it usually takes

 a week

before

full vaccination protection is

assumed.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

remains the front runner when it

comes to

vaccinations,

with a vaccination rate of 2.34 percent, ahead of

Schleswig-Holstein

with 1.92 percent.

Baden-Württemberg

comes in last

with a rate of 0.90 percent, behind Thuringia with 1.03 percent.

All-clear in Weyhe near Bremen: Senior woman did not die of corona vaccination

Update from January 16, 3:50 p.m.:

In

Weyhe near Bremen

 in the Diepholz district, the vaccination of a senior citizen made headlines on Thursday.

The 90-year-old died in a senior citizens' residence just a few hours after being vaccinated against the coronavirus.

After the unexpected 

death

 in the 

senior facility,

 the

 district of Diepholz had

 informed

the state of 

Lower Saxony

 and the 

Paul Ehrlich Institute

.

The shock was great.

Now the

public prosecutor's office in Verden has given the all-clear

and published the

results

of

the 

obstruction of

the

deceased.

As the Kreiszeitung, a partner portal of the Ippen-Digital network, reports, forensic doctors

could not find any connection between the corona vaccination and the death of

the 90-year-old woman.

"A final assessment by the Paul Ehrlich Institute remains to be seen," said the district.

Lothar Wieler, President of the Robert Koch Institute, had

 pointed out

even before the EU approval of the 

Biontech preparation

that, due to the statistical probability, “people will die in connection with the vaccination”.

Solution for Germany's vaccination chaos?

Biontech and Pfizer changes recommendations for action

Update from January 16, 2:02 p.m.:

Could a change in transport

solve

the

vaccination problems

in

Germany

?

At least vaccination with the

vaccine from

the Mainz-based

pharmaceutical company Biontech

and its US partner

Pfizer

could now be easier.

After new tests and data on the

stability of the vaccine

, the manufacturer updated its

recommendations for action

on Saturday

.

Accordingly, the vaccine can be transported as a finished dose in the syringe for up to six hours at 2 to 8 degrees.

This could make the

mobile use

of vaccination doses

easier,

for example in

nursing homes

.

So far, the already

diluted vaccine

could not be transported between

facilities

(e.g. vaccination center - nursing home).

That can change now: The Biontech * agent could already be

diluted

in the

vaccination centers

* and be

carefully transported

as a prepared

dose in the syringe

in special boxes

within a maximum of six hours

.

Federal Health

Minister Jens Spahn

(CDU *) told the German Press Agency on Saturday that the federal states could

now organize

the

vaccination campaign more flexibly

.

"The fact that finished vaccination doses in syringes can in future be prepared for transport in the vaccination centers is very practical in the

fight against the pandemic

."

+

This is how the coronavirus vaccine is transported in Germany at the moment

© picture alliance / dpa / dpa graphic |

dpa-infografik GmbH

Vaccine setback: Pfizer announces further delivery delays - Biontech receives vaccine production in Marburg approved

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 planned

Corona *

vaccine doses

do not

arrive

on time in the Federal Republic.

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 of 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 on 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 supply shortage 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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