Angela Merkel invites you to the Corona vaccination summit on Monday.
The expectations are high.
The anger potential even higher.
And the next chaos is looming.
On Monday (February 1), Chancellor Merkel and the Prime Minister will meet for a
corona vaccination summit
.
The expectations are high, the risk of failure all the higher
(see initial report)
.
Michael Müller, chairman of the Prime Minister's Conference, previously made demands in a letter to the Chancellor
(see update from January 31, 6:22 p.m.)
.
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news ticker
is updated regularly.
Update from January 31, 8:20 p.m.:
The
corona vaccination summit with Chancellor Angela Merkel
on Monday could be turbulent - because the actors are under enormous pressure to act.
The
EU Commission was able to
announce a small success in the struggle with the manufacturer Astrazeneca on Sunday *.
But
CDU boss Armin Laschet
got a broadside just before the deliberations, as did the EU.
Laschet felt displeasure from within his own ranks.
"There is pure chaos," said the
CDU district
administrator of the Heinsberg district,
which was
badly
shaken
at the beginning of the
Corona crisis,
with a view to the
appointment of vaccinations for people over 80
in
North Rhine-Westphalia
.
"I would like to see him read all these angry e-mails from citizens to heart," said
Stephan Pusch
in an interview with the portal
Focus Online
.
"Before Christmas it was said that everything was going to get better," he emphasized, "almost two months later, the large contact point with four vaccination lines is still empty".
The district administrator hardly spared any political authority with harsh criticism: “EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen posted touched tweets.
Jens Spahn and the Chancellor welcomed the new development with euphoria, only to warn of the delivery bottlenecks just a few weeks later, ”said Pusch, annoyed during the conversation.
He missed an honest commitment to the previous failures of
Merkel and Spahn
.
There is now an "extremely explosive situation" in the population.
He also accused Laschet and
NRW Health Minister Josef Laumann
(CDU) of
missing positive interim vaccination results
.
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD)
meanwhile turned the focus on the EU.
“It would have been good if Europe had ordered more vaccine.
Much further beyond our own needs, ”said the SPD candidate for chancellor of the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
.
In his view, such an approach would not have failed because of the money.
“The EU Commission has negotiated the purchase of the vaccines.
If the Commission had asked us for more funding, we would have transferred additional money to the EU. ”
Angela Merkel's Vice Chancellor
promised that vaccination was“ the highest priority ”
.
Great Britain
is proving that things can be done better
: on Saturday alone, according to the government in the United Kingdom, almost 600,000 vaccine doses were administered.
The number of first vaccinations rose to just under nine million.
However, only around 490,000 people received a second dose.
These numbers are also likely to put the protagonists in Germany under further pressure.
Vaccination summit: country chief writes letter of demands to Merkel - Söder minister warns of "show event"
Update from January 31, 6:22 p.m.:
On Monday,
clear
text should be spoken
at the
vaccination summit
.
The state
heads
, several federal ministers and the chancellor, vaccine manufacturers and
representatives of the EU Commission are to
take part
in the video conference
.
Berlin's governing mayor and also chairman of the Prime Minister's Conference,
Michael Müller
(SPD), had previously confirmed his demand for a short-term “national vaccination plan” in a letter to
Chancellor Angela Merkel
(CDU).
If you want to make a vaccination offer to all people willing to vaccinate in Germany by the end of September, "a specific timetable is now required to achieve this goal," said Müller in the letter that was available to the German press agency.
Müller therefore stated that, on the one hand, reliable and binding information on
vaccine deliveries is
necessary
.
In addition, an overview of the further development of vaccination in Germany is required “very promptly”.
In the letter to Merkel, he urges an overview that shows the possibilities for expanding
production capacities
.
“In the current situation, it is of crucial importance that we mobilize all available capacities in the high-tech location Germany and in the European Union
to support
vaccine production
,” writes Müller.
This included both licensed productions and the expansion of supplies.
In order to achieve such goals on Monday too, all problems have to be on the table: "This must not be a show event, we have to be able to understand where the problems are and then resolve them," said Bavaria's Minister of Health
Klaus Holetschek
(CSU) the
Augsburger Allgemeine
.
Bavaria's Prime Minister
Markus Söder also
spoke to our editorial team on Sunday * of a necessary “emergency plan in which the state sets clear guidelines for production and compensation”.
Summit on Monday: chaos with corona vaccinations - delivery bottlenecks, questionable effect, too few orders
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Angela Merkel and Michael Müller at a Corona Prime Minister meeting.
© Guido Bergmann / dpa
First report from January 31st:
Berlin
- Create clarity, agree reliable schedules, accelerate.
The Corona *
vaccination summit
with Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) * and the prime ministers of the federal states should be a liberation across the
board
.
It would be urgently needed.
The start of the corona vaccination at the turn of the year has a messed up on all levels.
An overview:
The allegations are harsh and so far no one has really been able or willing to clear them from the table: The
EU
has ordered
too few vaccine doses
and that is apparently also contractually vague.
At Biontech there is a sudden delivery stop.
Also
Moderna
significantly reduced its commitments to bottom.
And
the
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
denies that Astrazeneca
has
a reasonable effect on people over 65.
But above all: In Germany, it seems that far too little vaccine arrives.
Which may also have something to do with the well-known German small-state government.
Each federal state distributes its vaccination doses differently.
In Bavaria, each district even organizes the distribution a little differently.
At least from the little vaccine that gets there.
It is not much.
Chaos with corona vaccinations: Every federal state vaccinates differently, in Bavaria even every region
While in Lower Saxony, Hesse and Rhineland Palatinate, for example, people over 80 years of age are already being vaccinated, in Bavaria the focus has so far been on herd immunity at the state's largest clinics.
In terms of width, therefore, little is received, even if hardly anyone dares to say it.
Markus Söder's current suggestion, which he made in the
ZDF morning
magazine, that Astrazeneca should be used to vaccinate clinic staff and doctors and not old people,
sounds
very nice.
Only in his federal state are the large clinics reasonably well supplied, but not the elderly.
Corona vaccination chaos in Germany: Spahn appeases and promises
Meanwhile, Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) * is doing what he has been doing for weeks, he appeases and promises improvement: "There are vaccines every week, and there are also more, step by step." One year after the start of the pandemic, three were approved effective vaccines.
His ministry calculates that 3.5 million cans have already been delivered, with five more to come by
February 22
.
The Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) * no longer really believes in it.
She said to
BamS
:
“The quantities of the vaccine from Moderna have been cut by 20 percent, the announcements from Astrazeneca are subject to change. On this basis, we still cannot reliably assign vaccination appointments. "
Vaccination summit with Merkel: the question remains, what can Germany solve alone
The hopes at the
vaccination summit on Monday (February 1) in the Chancellery
are therefore high.
But what he can achieve is very much an open question.
As is well known, orders, contracts and delivery are with the EU, neither with the federal government nor with the states.
Please also read the current
Merkur.de
* comment *.
Franziska Brantner, European spokeswoman for the Greens in the Bundestag, agrees: “A national vaccination summit alone does not help.
Pharmaceutical companies are usually set up multinational.
This is where the EU has to act, ”she told the editorial network Germany (RND).
Before the corona vaccination summit with Merkel: Politicians are calling for binding statements
Nevertheless:
SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich
demands from the summit "more precise and binding statements about how the pharmaceutical industry wants to meet its delivery obligations and how it can increase the production of vaccines so that the inoculation can function smoothly on site".
The managing director of the
German Association of Cities
, Helmut Dedy
, also found clear words
.
“The cities no longer expect vague promises, but rather clear answers to the two essential questions: When will there be enough vaccines?
When will which vaccine be delivered to the vaccination center? ”Said Dedy of the
German press agency
.
Before the corona vaccination summit in the Chancellery: Habeck calls for "emergency vaccination"
Green leader Robert Habeck * called in the newspapers of the
Funke media group
an "emergency vaccine industry" in order to produce more vaccine.
All pharmaceutical companies are to be "immediately involved in production according to their capabilities," demanded Habeck.
Corona vaccination summit in the Chancellery: Altmaier warns of Lockdwon extension
And the list of good ideas and demands goes on and on.
So it is hardly surprising that Economics Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) * is
warning the economy
in the
Welt am Sonntag
: There, he did not rule out that even if Germany's
incidence falls below 50
, the
lockdown must
still be extended.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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