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Chancellor Merkel in conversation with Nikolaus Blome and Frauke Ludowig
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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) cannot report much good news these days.
Your government is under pressure because of the slow supply of corona vaccines.
Nevertheless, the Chancellor is relying on more public appearances.
After facing the frustration of suffering parents in the morning, she answered questions from RTL / ntv in the evening.
Merkel warned again that the corona protection rules must be complied with in nursing homes - despite the falling number of infections.
"We have to be very, very careful now so that not so many people die in the last few meters," said Merkel in an interview with Frauke Ludowig and Nikolaus Blome, who writes as a columnist for SPIEGEL.
Merkel did not accept criticism of the slow supply of corona vaccines.
"I think that went pretty quickly," said the Chancellor.
Last summer, she hardly dared to make a prognosis as to whether there could be a vaccine for Christmas.
The procurement of vaccines through the EU was also the right step, according to Merkel.
"It's just not proven that if we had paid more or ordered more, we would have got more in the beginning," she said.
The fact that Great Britain, for example, has already administered significantly more vaccinations, is explained by the »emergency approval« there.
However, the EU has opted for a “thorough way”.
It is true that vaccinations in Germany have "gone a bit slower" so far.
Merkel was optimistic, however: "I think we will catch up a long way in this regard."
The conversation on RTL was the Chancellor's second TV interview within a few days.
On Tuesday, she was questioned on ARD.
The performance met with criticism because Merkel said, despite the acute shortage of vaccines and other difficulties, that, by and large, nothing had gone wrong with the vaccination campaign so far (read a comment here).
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