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This stems from an internal document that is the basis for the current deliberations of the EU ambassadors on the distribution of the 10 million preferred doses of Biontech / Pfizer. According to these calculations, 50.92 percent of the Austrian population would be vaccinated against Corona by the end of June. 21 EU countries are ahead of Austria in terms of vaccination progress. In contrast, only five countries vaccinated a smaller proportion of their population towards the end of the second quarter, namely Bulgaria (45.01 percent), Croatia (45.29 percent), the Czech Republic (44.33 percent), Estonia (50.27 percent) and Slovakia (45.59 percent). On the contrary, according to this calculation, the rest of the EU countries, with Malta (93.10%), leader in the list, followed by Denmark (79.88%), the Netherlands (64.59%), Cyprus (62.47%), Germany (61.04%) Sweden (60.75 percent).
In this proposal of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, corrections worth three million of the ten million doses of Biontech / Pfizer have already been taken into account, but not for Austria, but for six Eastern European countries that so far they have been late in purchasing vaccines. : Under the still controversial solidarity mechanism, extra doses deviating from the population code would only be sent to Bulgaria (1,151,889), Croatia (684,009), Czech Republic (142,940), Estonia (41,553), Latvia (376,689) ) and Slovakia. (602,921) wow. In total, this amounts to three million cans, the remaining seven million would be distributed according to the population key, Austria accounted for 139,170 cans.
In short, the “correction mechanism” is controversial.
The “correction mechanism” suggested by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (VP) is highly controversial in the EU. Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden, in particular, rejected major corrections. In particular, there has been no willingness to admit corrections in Austria, as the country is currently above the EU average in vaccination progress. Kurz had originally expected up to 400,000 cans within the ten million range, but later did not commit to an amount.
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The reason for the inequalities is that not all countries bought the amounts of vaccine that were offered, partly for cost reasons. Anyone who has relied on the Astrazeneca vaccine is now particularly affected by delivery issues from this manufacturer. Austria may be left behind because it has not exhausted its quota of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which will be delivered from mid-April.
EU ambassadors will continue to discuss the distribution on Thursday. Some EU states called for more solidarity on Wednesday. The EU Heads of State and Government forwarded the file to the EU ambassadors due to the lack of agreement at the summit. If no solution is found among the EU ambassadors, the order for 100 million cans from Biontech / Pfizer, some of which is the 10 million cans that went ahead, would not be blocked, according to diplomats. Therefore, the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU would have to return the file to the responsible steering committee, where the appointment would continue according to the previous population code, that is, without a solidarity mechanism. The EU has until May 17 to solve the distribution problem.
