Several vaccine manufacturers have already announced delivery delays.
The EU Commission now wants to find solutions at a secret crisis meeting to boost production.
Brussels - Apparently the EU Commission is planning a crisis meeting with manufacturers of corona vaccines.
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A spokeswoman for the EU Commission confirmed this on request.
At two meetings, the EU Commission wants to talk to vaccine producers about how the production of vaccines in Europe can be accelerated.
"Our idea is to bring these corporations and companies together in order to accelerate the processes in vaccine production along the entire supply chain,"
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the spokeswoman, "from the raw materials to the filling."
Both the vaccine process * and the delivery should be topics of the crisis talks.
The meetings are to be organized by Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton.
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who should participate and when the meetings will take place
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The already great shortage of vaccine has now been exacerbated by the suspension of vaccinations with AstraZeneca.
In Baden-Württemberg alone, the AstraZeneca * stop means that around 15,000 vaccinations are no longer required every day, as the local Ministry of Health explained.
Coronavirus vaccination: delivery delays at several manufacturers
Several manufacturers had previously announced delivery problems.
AstraZeneca announced on Friday that instead of the 220 million doses last targeted, it would only deliver 100 million to EU countries by the middle of the year.
The British-Swedish pharmaceutical company had justified the delivery bottlenecks, among other things, with the export restrictions of other countries.
The US manufacturer Johnson & Johnson * could also experience problems with delivery to the EU.
Whether the 55 million vaccine doses expected by the EU Commission can be met in the second quarter is unclear due to US export restrictions.
"Since the EU does not yet have its own filling and closing systems, we are dependent on exports from the USA," said the SPD MEP Tiemo Wölken on Thursday of the
German Press Agency
.
"This threatens once more delays in the vaccine supply."
