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Jens Spahn is already lowering hopes for corona vaccines this year. The Minister of Health expects a vaccine in January, February or March. It was previously said that vaccines might be possible sooner.
The Federal Ministry of Health remains in its assessment that the first corona vaccines will likely be possible in the first months of next year. A vaccine is still supposed to be available in early 2021, a ministry spokesman said on request on Friday. “Spiegel” quotes Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) in his new edition with the words that it could be January, maybe February or March, or even later.
“Bild” had previously informed Spahn at the beginning of the week, citing participants in a video exchange conference of the federal states’ health ministers, that vaccines might be possible sooner. Spahn said there that the Biontech company (Mainz) was about to approve a vaccine. When asked when he expected the first vaccines, Spahn said: “That could happen before the end of the year.”
60 vaccination centers will be built nationwide
In addition, this week the Federal Ministry of Health asked the governments of the federal states to provide delivery addresses for the vaccine before November 10. A total of 60 vaccination centers will be built throughout the country. Spahn had spoken several times about the establishment of such vaccination centers, for example in showrooms. The background is, among other things, the nature of the expected vaccines. These would likely have to be transported and stored at minus 20 to minus 70 degrees, the minister said earlier in the month. Corresponding devices are required for delivery and storage, especially since the substances would likely come in “larger containers,” according to Spahn.
The ministry spokesman did not want to comment on the “Bild” report as it involved internal discussions. Spahn and Research Minister Anja Karliczek (CDU) had recently discussed the first possible vaccines in the first quarter of 2021 and for the great mass of the population from the middle of next year. The Minister of Health advocates that population groups with a particular risk initially have the opportunity to be vaccinated and has repeatedly stressed that there will be no mandatory vaccination.
