Armin Laschet (CDU) wants to change the vaccination sequence in the spring and criticizes Bavaria and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in connection with the procurement of the Russian corona vaccine.
Berlin - The North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) is calling for the vaccination sequence to be lifted this spring.
Laschet told
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that the vaccination priorities should be lifted and vaccinations should be opened for all people if Germany is supplied with "large quantities of vaccines" at the end of spring.
For him, this is an important building block for the "bridge to a summer with much more freedom".
However, he did not want to criticize the previous vaccination sequence with this request.
Laschet defended the strict sequence of vaccinations as a "protective wall for the elderly and those in need of care".
In this way "countless lives" could be saved.
Change corona vaccination sequence: Laschet speaks of "a bridge to a summer with much more freedom"
Laschet, however, criticized the advance of the federal states of Bavaria and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to procure the Russian corona vaccine Sputnik V. "I think it's right if the Federal Republic of Germany orders vaccine for everyone according to clear criteria and not everyone just for themselves," he said across from
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.
Markus Söder (CSU) had just announced last week that Bavaria had secured 2.5 million doses of Sputnik V with a preliminary contract in the event that the active ingredient was approved by the EU.
On Thursday, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania also announced that it had secured an option from Russia for one million of these vaccine doses.
Söder versus Laschet?
K-Question part of the Union Summit
For Armin Laschet, the timing of his positive prospects for the summer could at least be favorable.
At today's summit of the Union it is not least about the post of Chancellor candidate for CDU / CSU * for the Union for the federal election in September.
These days he has to position himself against his strongest competitor - the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU).
(
Astrid Theil with afp / dpa
) *
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