Biontech is running out: Now Spahn is standing and has "decisive message"

Health Minister Jens Spahn had announced that the delivery quantities of Biontech vaccine against Corona will be limited.

Now he specifies.

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Berlin - Jens Spahn's plans to limit the distribution of the Biontech vaccine to general practitioners have met with massive criticism *.

This is also about the booster vaccinations *.

The acting Federal Minister of Health now emphasized that it was not possible to withdraw the upper order limits.

“I can't withdraw it because it's simply a question of the amount available,” said the CDU politician on Sunday evening on the ZDF program “Berlin direkt”.

“We're not holding anything back.

I can't deliver a vaccine from Biontech that isn't there. "

Spahn on Biontech plans: "We should have had to communicate more clearly"

The demand has increased insanely in the last two weeks, "we will be delivering six million Biontech cans from tomorrow alone," said Spahn.

Due to this massive demand, “our Biontech warehouse is currently running empty”.

"And the fact is that at the moment (...) - that is, from the week after next, when the big delivery was made - I don't have more than two to three million vaccine doses of Biontech available." He admitted: "We had we still have to communicate more clearly. "

But there is a good, just as effective alternative with the vaccine from Moderna.

"So the key message is: there is enough vaccine," stressed Spahn.

Booster vaccinations in Germany: Prefer Moderna instead of Biontech

In a letter to the federal states, the Federal Ministry of Health announced restrictions on order quantities for the Biontech vaccine for the next few weeks.

To this end, the preparation from Moderna is to be used more frequently for booster vaccinations.

For the time being, practices should be able to order a maximum of 30 doses of Biontech per week, vaccination centers and mobile vaccination teams 1020 doses.

There should be no upper limits for orders from Moderna.

By the end of the year there will be enough vaccine for everyone with a total of around 24 million doses from Biontech and 26 million from Moderna.

Federal states and medical representatives had sharply criticized the announcement.