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Truck with corona vaccine in the central warehouse of North Rhine-Westphalia
Photo: Mark Hermenau / dpa
On December 21, 2020, the EU Commission approved the first Covid-19 vaccine.
The drug, which the German company BioNTech developed together with the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has been inoculated since December 27, including in Germany.
In the following weeks, the products from Moderna and AstraZeneca were approved.
But the vaccination start is sluggish, sometimes there are delivery delays.
The graphics below show how many vaccination doses the EU has ordered for what money from the various manufacturers and what quantities - provided that the funds are approved - are to be delivered in Germany at what time of the year.
BioNTech / Pfizer therefore provides the largest chunk with 500 million cans for six billion euros, 100 million cans can also be ordered optionally.
The EU has ordered 300 million cans from AstraZeneca and Sanofi / GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and has kept the option of 100 million more cans open from AstraZeneca.
Almost always two doses are necessary
Apart from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, two doses of vaccine are given for all agents to be fully effective.
In order to vaccinate the entire population of a good 80 million people in Germany, a good 160 million vaccine doses would be necessary.
For some groups, such as children, pregnant women and, in some cases, the elderly, the vaccines are currently not recommended because no or too little data are available.
Germany also expects the most vaccine doses from BioNTech / Pfizer, a good 100 million units by the end of 2021.
AstraZeneca has planned 56 million cans and Moderna just under 50 million.
If its vaccine is approved, Curevac could also deliver the first batches in the first quarter of 2021.
The manufacturer has planned 63 million cans by the end of the first quarter of 2022.
The Federal Ministry of Health expects the vaccine from Johnson & Johnson from the second quarter of 2021. By the end of the year, 37 million doses are to be delivered.
The corona vaccine from Sanofi / GSK, on the other hand, is only planned for the end of 2021.
In the last quarter of this year and in the first of the following, Germany expects 56 million Covid 19 vaccination doses from the manufacturer.
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