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According to information from BILD, the EU approval authority EMA apparently wants the Biontech vaccine as of December 23. allow.
BILD learned this from the circles of the EU Commission and the German government.
The start of vaccination in Germany could take place this year. The conversation was on December 26, he said.
“We are doing everything we can to make sure the vaccine is approved as soon as possible,” Jens Spahn says in the morning.
“I wonder about the field of play. However, we want full and proper approval, but also speedy approval. Vaccination begins as soon as possible, before the turn of the year. “
At Biontech you are ready:
“We have already pre-produced and stockpiled the first batches of the vaccine for the EU. As soon as we get the green light from the EMA and the EU Commission, we can start loading and delivering the vaccine doses to vaccination centers, ”a spokeswoman told BILD.
Professor Alena Buyx, member of the Ethics Council, explained the start of vaccination as the “beginning of a true exit strategy from this pandemic.”
CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt had called Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) again in the morning. Expect faster approval and pressure on EMA. It’s also about acceptance of the vaccination process.
“If we have a vaccine that was developed primarily in Germany, then we should also have the right to be the first to use it in Germany,” Dobrindt told BILD.
Why does it keep taking so long?
Why is it already possible to vaccinate in Great Britain and the United States and not here?
The difference is technical-formal: in the US, Canada and Great Britain so-called “emergency approvals” were issued. The EU EMA approval authority should not take such a special route. She can only allow it or not.
But: Health Minister Jens Spahn (40, CDU) could have already approved the vaccine in Germany like its counterpart in Great Britain, by regulation. But the federal government consciously wanted to hand over the decision to the EMA.
How does the EMA work?
The EMA is independent. And his new boss, Irishman Emer Cooke, attaches great importance to ensuring that the approval of the vaccine does not look like a political acceleration, according to information from BILD.
It is therefore a bit of consolation that the EMA is said to be working additional shifts, and in Germany the first doses of the vaccine are said to have been handled in a cold room at Leipzig airport.
