The federal government's vaccination campaign is limping.
One bad news follows another.
Jens Spahn in particular has to put up with severe criticism for this - on Friday he takes a position on the current corona situation.
Jens Spahn
reckons with "ten tough weeks" as the difficulties in
obtaining vaccines
are becoming increasingly difficult
.
While he
wants to initiate
a
"vaccination MPK"
, new failures are again made public.
On Friday morning,
Spahn will
talk
to
RKI boss Lothar Wieler
about the current corona situation.
Update from January 29, 8.45 a.m.:
Before the federal press conference with Health Minister
Jens Spahn
(CDU) and RKI boss
Lothar Wieler
from 10 a.m., the new
corona numbers
for
Germany were
published
on Friday morning
.
The German health authorities reported
14,022 new corona infections
and
839 new deaths to
the RKI
within one day.
The
7-day incidence
was reported to
RKI
on Friday morning at
94.4
- on Thursday this important characteristic was the first time since the end of October under the 100th
In addition, the
EMA
plans to
issue
its recommendation on the approval
of
AstraZeneca's
corona vaccine
this Friday
.
In
Germany
, the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) has now recommended that the agent should only be injected to adults
under 65 years of age
because there is too little test data for older people.
The British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has surprisingly announced a
delivery cut of
the vaccine for the
EU
.
An expert sees an “epoch-making mistake” by the
EU Commission
in the procurement of the vaccine.
Corona in Germany: Spahn announces "at least ten more difficult weeks"
First report from January 28th:
Berlin - "With the shortage of the
vaccine
we are going through at least ten tough weeks" - this is how
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn
has put people in Germany in the mood for what is to come before Easter.
On
, he suggested that the federal and state governments should
hold
their own
conference of prime ministers
specifically to discuss the
topic of vaccination
- the situation, goals and further action.
The vaccine manufacturers should also be there, as
Spahn
wants
to invite them to an expert talk.
“We can only gain trust in this crisis if the federal and state governments pull together,”
Spahn continued
on Twitter.
So he wants with the
"seed-MPK"
probably not only to show that he is the
buck
does not want to let slip only, but also convert to "truce".
Because like no one else, he is currently facing fierce criticism: Although the mass vaccinations are considered a core measure to
contain
the
coronavirus *
pandemic
, Germany and the EU are not receiving sufficient
vaccine
from the manufacturers.
Accordingly, the population is currently being vaccinated far too slowly - and the
lockdown is
dragging on and on, according to
Spahn's critics
.
We can only gain confidence in this crisis if the federal and state governments pull together.
Hence my suggestion: We do a vaccination MPK, an extra Prime Minister's conference just for vaccination.
(1/5)
- Jens Spahn (@jensspahn) January 28, 2021
"There is one setback after the other," said
SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil
and again called for "a clear plan on how we can get
vaccinations in Germany
faster".
The
SPD also
wants the
“vaccination summit”
,
because what is
needed now is “transparency about contracts and reorders of vaccines” and “better communication between all levels”,
Klingbeil added
.
In his opinion,
Spahn has
long since gambled away people's trust: "Every vaccination promise that he gives lasts for a maximum of one or two weeks," said the SPD politician.
Astra-Zeneca vaccine: Will the Stiko recommendation change the German vaccination campaign?
From the
turning point of the pandemic
, to which the
vaccination campaign
should become, not much is felt, not only
Klingbeil is
currently criticizing
the Minister of Health in the strongest possible way.
And bad news is followed by the next: The
vaccine manufacturer
Astra-Zeneca
has informed the EU that after the approval expected for Friday, it will initially deliver much less vaccine * than contractually agreed.
The manufacturer threw all criticism from himself,
after all
, the
EU ordered
the vaccines around three months later than, say,
Great Britain
.
Now the
Standing Vaccination Commission
at the Robert Koch Institute (Stiko) has
also announced that the
Covid-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca is
"only recommended for people between the ages of 18 and 64 based on the data currently available".
A message that reduces the amount of available vaccine * for the risk group currently to be vaccinated in retirement and nursing homes.
Almost at the same time, the
vaccine manufacturer Biontech * Pfizer reported
future delivery bottlenecks.
Video: Vaccine Shortages - AstraZeneca blames the EU
Because of this vaccination debacle - and also because the numbers keep falling, an end to the
lockdown
but still does not seem to be in sight - all attention is directed to the
press conference
on Friday, in which Spahn and the President of the
Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler
, want to inform about the current Corona situation in Germany .
From ten o'clock,
Spahn will
also have the opportunity to comment on the latest reports and alleged omissions.
Last week,
Wieler
had already reported a "slightly positive trend" in the development of new daily infections with the
coronavirus
- on Wednesday, a nationwide 7-day incidence of below 100 was announced for the first time since October.
The
“vaccination summit” *
, which the
health minister
and the
SPD have
so vehemently demanded, is already being prepared.
The
government spokesman Steffen Seibert
recently confirmed this
.
Health
experts are still unaffected by the plan: Even a "vaccine summit will not bring people in Germany an additional ampoule in the next few months," said
Eugen Brysch
, director of the
German Foundation for Patient Protection
.
Instead, he calls on those responsible in the federal government to be honest: "The mistakes were made last year and cannot be remedied by conferences now." Another point of criticism that
seems to be addressed to
Spahn
.
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