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Development Minister Müller wants G7 billions for vaccination logistics
04.35 a.m.:
Federal Development
Minister
Gerd Müller has asked the G7 states to provide 16 billion euros for vaccination logistics in poorer countries. The seven industrialized countries want to promise a donation of at least one billion vaccine doses at their summit in Cornwall, England, from Friday, as the British government announced. "The vaccination doses must also come to the people," said Müller of the "Augsburger Allgemeine". "There is still a shortage of 16 billion US dollars this year - for cold chains, tests and drugs to treat the consequences of an infection, for example."
The G7 should close this financial gap quickly, demanded Müller.
Germany has gone ahead and provided 2.2 billion euros.
The total corresponds to Germany's previous commitments for the global initiative to cope with the corona pandemic called ACT Accelerator, which promotes corona vaccines, drugs and tests, and its corona vaccination program Covax.
North America: Two
corona
cases on the first cruise since the start of the pandemic
3:56 a.m.:
On the first cruise ship to set sail from North America since the beginning of the corona pandemic, there have been two infections with the corona virus.
"Two guests who shared a cabin on board the Celebrity Millennium tested positive for COVID-19," said the organizer Royal Caribbean.
Both infected people therefore show no symptoms of the disease and are in quarantine.
According to the information, all 600 passengers and 650 crew members of the cruise ship had presented proof of a corona vaccination as well as a negative test result before the start of the trip.
The ship set sail from the Dutch part of the Caribbean island of St. Martin on Saturday and was supposed to dock in Barbados, Aruba and Curaçao.
Municipalities are calling for a concept for major events
03.15 a.m.:
Municipalities reacted disappointedly to the fact that the Prime Minister's Conference could not agree on uniform corona rules for major events.
If the infection rate and the vaccination campaign continue to develop positively, clear opening perspectives must also be shown at the events as quickly as possible, taking clear hygiene concepts into account, said the chief executive of the German Association of Cities and Towns, Gerd Landsberg, of the "Rheinische Post".
Here, the federal states should soon come to the most uniform possible line.
"Otherwise there will be a patchwork quilt that can no longer be explained to the local people in the municipalities," warned Landsberg.
Spahn no longer plans the Curevac vaccine for the current vaccination campaign
02.37 a.m.:
Federal
Minister of
Health Jens Spahn no longer uses the corona vaccine from the Tübingen manufacturer Curevac for the current vaccination campaign.
Spahn said that to the health ministers of the federal states during the last ministerial conference, reported the "Mannheimer Morgen" with reference to government circles.
Accordingly, Spahn spoke of "one of the greater disappointments".
Like the Mainz company Biontech, Curevac has developed a modern mRNA vaccine.
The Tübingen drug has long been considered extremely promising.
As recently as April, the company had stated that it was hoping for approval by the European Medicines Agency EMA in May.
The federal government then planned the first vaccinations with the Curevac vaccine for the second quarter of 2021.
The Minister of Health of Baden-Württemberg, Manfred Lucha (Greens) spoke this week of "complications" in the approval process and referred to information from Spahn.
Accordingly, the Federal Minister of Health had now named August as the earliest possible time for EU approval in confidential discussions.
The Federal Ministry of Health apparently drew conclusions from this - and deleted the vaccine from its planning for the time being.
EU authority: Millions of defective anti-
corona
products seized
1:52 a.m.:
Since the beginning of the pandemic, falsified and defective health protection products have been
seized on a massive scale
in the EU.
In its annual report for 2020, the agency said in its annual report for 2020 that around 52 million inferior handgels, protective masks and test kits were tracked down through investigations by the EU anti-fraud authority Olaf. According to this, 1150 suspicious dealers were identified.
According to the annual report, the EU fraud fighters are satisfied with their early action against counterfeit vaccines.
"Even before the first vaccine was administered, we sounded the alarm about offers of counterfeit vaccines," said Olaf General Manager Ville Itala.
This prevented fraud in this area "as far as we know".
G7 summit plans
corona
vaccine donation of one billion doses
01.08 a.m.:
Today the G7 summit starts in Cornwall, Great Britain.
Among other things, a vaccine donation of one billion doses for other countries is to be decided.
"As a result of the successful UK vaccine program, we are now able to share some of our excess doses with those who need them," Johnson said.
He hopes his counterparts will "make similar commitments so that together we can vaccinate the world and recover from the coronavirus by the end of next year."
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that his country would contribute 100 million vaccine doses from its surplus, much of it through the Covax vaccine initiative.
US President Joe Biden had announced a donation of 500 million vaccine doses for 92 poorer countries.
The 27 countries of the EU have so far committed to donating at least 100 million cans by the end of 2021.
France and Germany each provide at least 30 million cans.
Supreme federal court allows
Copa
America in Brazil
12:01 a.m.:
Green light for the Copa America: The controversial relocation of the South American continental soccer
tournament
to Brazil is also
valid
before the Supreme Court of the country.
On Thursday, the judges decided in a short-term virtual meeting on urgent motions from opposition MPs against the Sugar Loaf.
By late Thursday evening in Germany, six of the eleven judges had dismissed the objections.
The decision had thus been made, from Sunday onwards the game will be played at four locations in Brazil.
The plaintiffs wanted to reverse the decision of President Jair Bolsonaro, who had agreed to postpone the tournament from Colombia and Argentina at short notice.
MEPs see the Copa as an unacceptable health risk for Brazil, which has been hard hit by the pandemic.
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