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Corona vaccine: Markus Söder accuses the EU of ordering too late

2021-01-29T09:58:43.912Z


Ordered too late, from too few manufacturers: CSU boss Markus Söder is making allegations against the EU because of the scarce corona vaccine. Mistakes were also made in Germany.


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Markus Söder

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Who is to blame for the vaccination chaos in Germany?

CSU boss Markus Söder attacked the EU in the dispute.

The vaccine was ordered too late and only a few manufacturers were used, said Bavaria's Prime Minister in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”.

The result has so far been unsatisfactory.

"The operational responsibility lay in Europe," said Söder.

The fundamental importance was also underestimated in Germany.

Therefore, a few weeks after the start of vaccination, you are at a point where the ordered quantities do not arrive and vaccinations are therefore postponed.

“It's a very, very uncertain situation for such an important subject.

And I think it was underestimated in some places in Germany at the beginning, ”said Söder.

The Prime Minister called for "maximum transparency" when dealing with the problems.

Söder therefore also welcomed the federal and state vaccination summit on Monday.

Now it is about getting more vaccine faster.

"It cannot be that such a large continent, which is so economically strong and has so many large pharmaceutical companies, cannot produce more than just one plant that is about to start up in Marburg." said Söder.


Von der Leyen defends EU strategy

EU Commission head Ursula von der Leyen had previously defended the European Union's corona vaccination strategy and urged the manufacturer AstraZeneca to make clear delivery commitments.

"What I ask is transparency and planning security," she said on Deutschlandfunk.

A week ago, the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company announced a delivery cut, very surprisingly and without a plausible explanation.

The EU orders are binding and not restricted.

"The contract is crystal clear," said von der Leyen.

To show that, they want to publish the document this Friday.

Von der Leyen rejected allegations against her address.

The EU Commission concluded the contract with AstraZeneca on time.

The fact that Great Britain ordered earlier does not play a role in the company's delivery obligations.

"It's not like standing in line at the bakery," she said.

The fact that more than ten percent of the population in Great Britain has now been vaccinated once, while it is only around two percent in Germany, was due to the more detailed examination of the vaccine by the EU Medicines Agency.

Even in this emergency situation, people consciously rely on conditional marketing approval instead of just emergency approval, because there should be "no shortcut to safety".

"You have to take your time for these three or four weeks," said von der Leyen.

The EMA plans to issue its recommendation on approval of AstraZeneca's vaccine this Friday.

In Germany, the Standing Vaccination Commission has now recommended that the drug should only be injected to adults under 65 years of age because there is too little test data for older people.

The EU states are to receive up to 400 million vaccine doses from AstraZeneca.

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Source: spiegel

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