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Corona vaccination: Merkel government now fears attacks on vaccination centers

2021-01-24T20:10:35.733Z


The vaccinations against the corona virus are slow. Preparations will continue to be distributed only with a delay. Government fears attacks on vaccination centers. The news ticker.


The vaccinations against the corona virus are slow.

Preparations will continue to be distributed only with a delay.

Government fears attacks on vaccination centers.

The news ticker.

  • Coronavirus pandemic *

    : The number of

    Covid-19 cases

    improved slightly in January 2021.

    A

    hard corona lockdown

    *

    also applies

    .

  • The

    vaccinations against Corona *

    are slow and

    Covid-19

    * vaccines

    are only delivered with a delay.

  • The federal government has now warned of possible attacks on vaccination centers (see update from January 24, 1:13 p.m.

    ).

  • This

    news ticker on vaccinations and vaccines in Germany

    is updated regularly.

Update from January 24th, 1:13 p.m

.: Not only

delivery delays

-

the federal government also fears

an

"abstract risk"

with the

corona vaccination

.

This was reported by the

AFP

news

agency

, referring to a response from the Interior Ministry to a Green * request.

Accordingly,

“vaccine opponents, corona skeptics and conspiracy theorists” could

target pharmaceutical company headquarters, vaccination centers, vaccine transports and storage facilities.

In addition, there is the risk of

espionage and sabotage attempts by

foreign secret services, the

AFP

quotes

from the letter.

The Ministry of the Interior referred to the “great media presence” and the “emotionality inherent in the Corona issue”.

It is true that the federal government has “no specific knowledge relevant to risk”.

Nevertheless, they must

assume

a danger to

“physical assault”

on

staff

and

vaccine recipients

.

Sabotage of the corona vaccination by conspiracy theorists: concern after storming the US Capitol

One scenario is that opponents of the vaccination

want to

attract attention

on the one hand

and emphasize their protest on the other.

The newspapers of the

Funke media group

had first reported on the subject.

According to the AFP, the

danger of

cyber attacks in

research, production and approval facilities must be “classified as high”.

"Several alleged attempts to investigate German vaccine manufacturers have already become known."

The Green domestic politician

Irene Mihalic

, who had directed the inquiry to the Interior Ministry, told the

Funke

newspapers that the storming of the US Capitol * had shown "how quickly absurd conspiracy narratives can turn into violence".

Her party colleague

Konstantin von Notz

warned that the cyber attack on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) had shown that the danger was "very real".

In its reply, the Ministry of the Interior points out that the

Federal Police

protect vaccination transports from the German border to the distribution centers of the federal states.

The

Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)

"sensitized" the

companies concerned to the threat

.

Corona vaccination: delivery bottlenecks!

Nevertheless, Spahn sticks to the prognosis for “vaccinations for all Germans”

Update from January 24, 10:34

a.m.: Federal Health Minister

Jens Spahn

(CDU *

) is currently under fire

because of the stumbled vaccination start

.

Now he is reaffirming

his “vaccination offer for all Germans until summer”

in the

Bild am Sonntag (BamS)

.

It will stay that way, he told the newspaper - "if the expected approvals for more vaccines come"

(see previous updates)

.

In

response to

the objection that Germany was

“far behind”

in

international vaccination

comparisons, Spahn replied that he did not

believe in

such comparison

tables

: “We can make a meaningful comparison in two or three months.

We started with the

nursing homes

, which is more complex and takes longer. "

Corona vaccination in Germany: Spahn throws Söder's idea of ​​mandatory vaccination again

The first group in the vaccination sequence are those

over 80 years of age

.

"As of today, everyone in the first group

will receive a vaccination offer

by the

end of March

," said Spahn to

BamS

.

Spahn took a clear position on

the possible

vaccination requirement

for nursing staff, which

Markus Söder (CSU *)

had brought into play.

“The nurses pay very close attention to whether we are talking about them or to them.

When it comes to vaccinating, I will definitely not decide over and over again

. ”As if to prove it, he then cites

two regions

:“ In Westphalia-Lippe, by the way, on average almost 80 percent of geriatric care workers have been vaccinated. ”

+

Doesn't want to know anything about "comparison tables" and a corona vaccination requirement: Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU)

© Michael Kappeler / POOL / AFP

Corona vaccination: delivery bottlenecks!

Spahn still expects millions of doses of a substance that has not yet been approved

Update from January 23, 6:02 p.m.:

Although the corona vaccine manufacturer

AstraZeneca

will deliver fewer doses to the EU than planned,

Jens Spahn is

certain: Germany can expect “at least three million vaccine doses in February”.

The

Federal

Minister of

Health

explained that

to

Bild am Sonntag

.

He admitted that "unfortunately, this is less than expected".

Corona vaccine: Spahn is certain - up to three million doses of AstraZeneca in February

The

CDU politician made

the statement on the condition that the AstraZeneca vaccine would be approved in the EU at the end of January, as expected.

It shows once again that the

production of vaccines is

much more complex than some headlines suggest, so

Spahn

.

The

Minister of Health

once

again promised

that a

vaccination offer

could be made to

everyone in the summer

- provided that the expected approvals for further vaccines come.

He also stuck to the goal of vaccinating the first group of vaccination candidates “by the end of March”.

The group includes people over 80, nursing home residents, and medical and nursing staff.

The

minister rejected the

criticism that

Germany is

lagging behind

when it comes to vaccinations

: “We can make a meaningful comparison in two or three months.” Germany started with nursing homes, which is more complex and takes longer, according to Spahn.

A table showing the inoculated doses by country can be found below in the text

(see first report from January 22nd)

.

+

Criticism of the corona vaccinations in Germany does not let Jens Spahn dissuade him from his optimistic plans.

© Daniel Karmann / dpa / picture alliance

Corona vaccination: Due to delivery bottlenecks, Hungary is buying vaccine that has not yet been approved

Update from January 23, 9:10 a.m.:

The corona vaccine is not only in short

supply

in Germany.

Other EU countries are currently also struggling with delivery bottlenecks.

Hungary

has now even bought a vaccine that

has not yet been approved in the EU

.

There were

two million doses

of vaccine Russian

"Sputnik V"

ordered.

This has been available in Russia since August.

However, no reports of clinical trials with the vaccine were available at this point.

The developers of “Sputnik V” now claim a reliability of

more than 90 percent

.

Hungary should

receive the

first doses within

30 days

.

However, a second authority must first agree after the

first emergency approval in the EU was

granted

on Thursday

.

Corona vaccinations: Next large vaccine manufacturer has delivery problems

Update from January 22nd, 5:56 p.m.:

The

vaccinations

against the

coronavirus

are slow in Germany.

One reason for this are

delivery bottlenecks for

the first

vaccine

from

Biontech * to be

approved in the EU

.

Now that the vaccine from the US manufacturer

Moderna is

also on the market, hopes rest on the third major

vaccine from

the British-Swedish manufacturer

AstraZeneca

.

Approval is expected in late January.

But now there is no good news for the

vaccination campaign in Germany

.

Because, according to

Biontech / Pfizer

, there also seem to be

difficulties with deliveries

at

AstraZeneca

.

The EU has ordered around 56 million cans for this year.

How much and when will be delivered is now unclear.

According to the Austrian portal

oe24.at

, the company informed the 27 EU vaccination coordinators that it could not deliver the intended amount in the first quarter.

After Biontech, AstraZeneca is also having delivery problems with vaccines

AstraZeneca also

confirmed this fact in the

picture

.

How much less

vaccine

Germany will receive is not yet clear.

Austria would receive approximately to March only "500,000 to 600,000" doses, said Impfkoordinator Clemens Martin Auer

oe24.at

.

This is two million less than expected.

AstraZeneca cited the

reason

that the scientists are

revising

the

vaccine

because of the

corona mutation

.

Another mutation has now been detected in Germany *.

In addition, a fire

in India's

largest

vaccine

factory paralyzed production.

It

is not clear to

what extent

Chancellor Angela Merkel

and

Health Minister Jens Spahn

can keep

their promise to make every German

a vaccination

offer

by the

end of the summer

.

The time could be pushed back, because the announcement is based on this bulk delivery.

Corona vaccinations: Statistics show how far behind Germany is really - vaccination with the first family doctors

Update from January 22nd, 4.30 p.m.:

In

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania the

first general practitioners' practices are now also carrying out

corona vaccinations

.

Initially, eight

general practitioners are

in a first test phase in cooperation with

vaccination centers

, as a spokesman for the district of Northwest Mecklenburg said on Friday.

The doctors had previously worked in

mobile vaccination teams

and had been trained in handling the

vaccine

.

According to a report from the

world

, the first

corona vaccinations

for seniors were given

on Thursday in a family doctor's practice in Neuburg near Wismar

.

According to the Schwerin Ministry of Health, the organization of the

corona vaccinations is

the responsibility of the districts.

General practitioners

could

act

as "

branch offices of the vaccination centers

", said a spokesman.

However, the allocation of patients takes place via the central appointment allocation by the commissioned call center.

Corona vaccinations in Germany: More than 1.5 million first vaccinations

First report from January 22nd:

Munich / Berlin -

Jens Spahn (CDU)

has once again given an update on the

corona vaccinations in Germany

*

.

As of January 22nd, there had been more than

1.5 million first vaccinations

, said the Minister of Health at the federal press conference and told of

100,000 second vaccinations

against the insidious lung disease

within the

Covid 19 risk groups

.

Coronavirus vaccinations in Germany: Jens Spahn - "The way out of the pandemic has begun"

“We are at the height of the

pandemic

, but

we

have started the way out of the pandemic.

I know that many wish it would go faster, ”said

Spahn

in Berlin.

But things are obviously not going any faster towards the end of January.

Time and again, manufacturer supply bottlenecks are cited as the reason.

An international comparison shows how far

Germany

really lags behind

when it

comes to vaccinations against the

coronavirus *

.

The

ZDF

shows in a

table the vaccinations

measured

worldwide

on 1000 inhabitants.

The result is as follows (as of January 21):

Coronavirus vaccinations: Germany is significantly behind in a global comparison

country

People with first vaccination against Corona

Vaccinations per 1000 inhabitants

Israel

3,292,190

380.4

Arab Emirates

2,246,069

227.1

Great Britain

5,437,284

80.1

United States

17,546,374

53.0

Denmark

185,777

32.1

Ireland

121,900

24.7

Lithuania

64,620

23.7

Spain

1,103,301

23.6

Slovenia

47,931

23.1

Germany

1,401,693

16.9

The statistics show:

Great Britain

, which is severely affected by the

Corona mutation

, is still ahead of

Germany

.

Some countries are significantly smaller in population than the Federal Republic of Germany and accordingly have less need for vaccine doses.

But compared to January 21, Spain was also well ahead of

Germany in

terms of vaccinations

.

Coronavirus vaccinations in Germany: All developments on vaccines and vaccines in the news ticker

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.

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

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Source: merkur

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