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“We may have to get vaccinated for many years. It will be similar to flu vaccines, where you get vaccinated against new mutations,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a press conference after meeting with leaders. regional representatives, representatives of pharmaceutical companies and the European Commission.
“If this virus continues to change, we have another problem,” Merkel warned. “If, for example, a mutation occurs that the vaccine doesn’t work against, then we start over.”
The German Chancellor spoke out against granting privileges to people who have been vaccinated against covid-19, adding that until it is clarified whether vaccinated people can transmit the virus, there is no point in discussing this issue.
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Merkel has defended the action of the EU to conclude agreements to buy vaccines against the coronavirus, including the denial of authorizations of emergency medicines, although this approach has delayed the immunization campaigns of the population against the covid-19.
“The EU has not decided on an emergency authorization for vaccines. We know that the UK has given one to Astra Zeneca within 24 hours. I think there are good reasons, it is a question of trust: the EU is complying with the approval of the European one. So it was not an emergency authorization, but an advance authorization, that is, a different procedure, “said Merkel.
He responded to representatives of the German provinces, who criticized the insufficient and irregular supply of vaccines.
According to the chancellor, the fact that the EU “has partly had very long negotiations” with vaccine manufacturers is related to “warranty issues” offered by the companies.
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“I support the decision of the European Commission to provide general guarantees at the political level,” Merkel said, adding that “in some places the road has become longer, that’s true, but there were good reasons for that.”
Explaining why the vaccination campaign in the United States is faster than in Germany and the EU, Merkel also referred to the fact that the United States has practically stopped exports, expanding large-scale production in the country, while the Vaccine production in the EU has not yet been so widely deployed.
He promised that this situation would change “in the first or second quarter of this year” and that Germany would vaccinate its entire population against the coronavirus before the end of the summer.
