Merkel's Corona vaccination summit: Biontech hammer in advance - Spahn announces new mega-deal - "up to 300 million doses"

Angela Merkel invites you to the Corona vaccination summit on Monday.

The expectations are high.

The anger potential even higher.

Jens Spahn announced good news in advance.

• On Monday (February 1), Chancellor Merkel and the prime ministers will meet for a

  corona vaccination summit

  .

• Federal

  Minister of

  Health

  Jens Spahn

  (CDU) has already announced a new deal in advance that will provide more vaccine (see update from February 1st, 10.03 a.m.).

• Before the

  vaccination summit

  , a

  CDU district administrator

  , of all people, is making sharp accounts with Merkel, Laschet and Spahn.

  (see update from January 31, 8:20 p.m.)

• This

  news ticker

  is updated regularly.

Vaccination summit: Spahn comments on AstraZeneca - Laschet calls for faster approvals

Update from February 1, 10.30 a.m.: CDU boss Armin Laschet also

switches on after connection problems.

He thinks it is important that “approval procedures are accelerated” so that production can start quickly in factories such as in Wuppertal.

Jens Spahn

goes back to the

AstraZeneca vaccine

.

Although the

EU

does not

give

a recommendation for the age group, because of the insufficient data for the older population group, the vaccine is not used in

Germany

for the time being.

Therefore the vaccination regulation will be adjusted.

Doctors and nurses could get to it faster.

Update February 1, 10:26:

The

Bayer AG

is the

vaccine

manufactured primarily at its plant in Wuppertal, but also use its international network.

Franz-Werner Haas from

CureVac

explains: "We are taking a close look at the corona mutations." The study results are of course shared with one another.

Greater production capacities are also important in order to simultaneously manufacture the current vaccine and possible mutation-adapted vaccines.

Press conference before vaccination summit: Spahn praises the cooperation between CureVac and Bayer

Update from February 1, 10.18 a.m.:

Haas explains that there are too few production sites for the new

mRNA vaccine

.

That is why it is

important to

work with

Bayer

to increase capacities.

This year "up to 300 million cans are planned".

The

CureVac CEO

explained that

at the PK.

So far, 600 million cans have been planned for 2022.

By expanding the existing production network, it would now be at least a billion.

Update from February 1, 10:09 a.m.: Jens Spahn

praises the new cooperation between the two companies.

"We will

need

vaccines

beyond the summer," said the Minister of Health.

One does not know whether it needs a refresher or whether the

vaccine has

to be adjusted due to mutations.

Therefore, vaccine will continue to be ordered and production capacities in Europe will be secured.

Therefore, vaccine for 2022 will also be secured.

Spahn-PK before vaccination summit: New cooperation between CureVac and Bayer

Update from February 1, 10:03 a.m.: CureVac CEO Franz-Werner Haas

explains that they

have started an intensive collaboration

with

Bayer AG

.

The aim is to increase production and the production network has been expanded with additional partners.

Several 100 million cans are planned for this year.

"It's about making vaccines widely available."

Bayer

supported

CureVac

in developing the

vaccine

.

Bayer will help with the production of the vaccine and manufacture the drug itself.

The company will use its own network for this.

Before the vaccination summit with Merkel, Söder calls for “reliability” of vaccines

Update from February 1st, 10:03 am:

Söder says the morning before the vaccination summit: “It is important that we make more hope out of disappointment.” He also promotes “reliability”.

There is currently too much uncertainty among the population, says Söder.

“We also have to think

 about

how we 

can increase

production capacities

, it is an absolute emergency situation,” clarifies the Prime Minister.

Söder promotes a "permanent exchange" on the subject of 

vaccination

.

“We are at an intermediate point in the fight against corona in Bavaria.

The numbers are not going down as fast as they were a few weeks ago.

We will continue to look at the development.

The major 

easing

 is currently irresponsible, that is completely clear to me ”.

The next meeting of the Prime Ministers is planned for February 10th.

Update from February 1, 9:50 a.m.:

According to the

picture

, Health Minister Jens Spahn and the pharmaceutical company Bayer will soon announce a new vaccination deal.

Merkel's Corona vaccination summit today: Biontech hammer in advance

Update from February 1, 8:30

a.m.: Good news before the vaccination summit:

The

vaccine maker Biontech claims to

be able to

deliver

up to

75 million additional doses of

its vaccine to the

European Union

in the second quarter

.

The Mainz company announced this on Monday morning - a few hours before the federal and state vaccination summit.

"We are continuing to work on increasing deliveries from the week of February 15 to ensure the contractually agreed delivery of the full amount of vaccine

doses

in the

first quarter," said

Biontech CFO Sierk Poetting

as quoted in the statement.

"We could also deliver up to 75 million more cans to the European Union in the second quarter."

According to the EU distribution key,

Germany

will receive

around

13.95 million additional doses of vaccine

in the second quarter

.

That is enough to fully vaccinate almost seven million people.

“To meet the increased global demand, we plan to manufacture two billion doses of our

COVID-19 vaccine

in 2021

.

To do this, we will increase the previously planned production of 1.3 billion vaccine doses by more than 50 percent.

The measures to expand our production capacities are going according to plan, ”explains Poetting.

Everyone is looking at Merkel's corona vaccination summit today: But Spahn is already dampening expectations - vaccination record in the UK

Update from February 1st, 7:05 am:

"We cannot produce more vaccines through a summit alone," warned Federal Health

Minister Jens Spahn

(CDU) in a

picture

talk

on Sunday evening of

exaggerated

expectations

of today's

vaccination summit *

.

You have to be realistic.

It is important that at the

top meeting you

first get a

uniform picture of

where the

difficulties

are and where politics can help.

The federal government can also only give the federal states the delivery dates and quantities that it receives from the manufacturers.

The

production of vaccines

cannot be accelerated even with money, said Spahn.

Corona vaccination summit in Germany: FDP boss Lindner speaks of Tempo bonuses for vaccine production

FDP leader

Christian Lindner

has before

vaccination summit

an end to the blame game and concrete steps for

more speed

during

corona protection

required.

For accelerated deliveries of vaccines, the state should rely on market competition, Lindner told the dpa.

“Many economists therefore recommend a

Tempo premium

for expanding production.

There must be an

incentive for the industry

to create additional capacities, ”said the FDP boss.

"The demands from the CSU and the Greens for a state-controlled emergency economy should sound impressive, but they do not solve any problem," said

Lindner

.

"They are more of a distraction from the fact that it was

government failure in procurement

." If you see the immense cost of the

lockdown

, then an investment in accelerated capacity expansion in vaccine production is worth all means.

Corona vaccination summit in Germany: CDU district administrator with all-round action

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".

Corona vaccinations in Germany: CDU district administrator, of all people, is keen on Merkel, Laschet and Spahn

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 reports vaccination record

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

+

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 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 the lockdown 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 and mls24.de are part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network.

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