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CSU chief Markus Söder has criticized the federal government’s strategy to buy corona vaccines. “We need more speed with the vaccine,” said the Bavarian prime minister of “Bild am Sonntag”. Everything must be aimed at obtaining more vaccines, which are then distributed more quickly. That must be “absolute political priority,” Söder demanded.
The CSU chief also prepared German citizens for a longer lockdown than until January 10: “The current figures are so high that it would be wrong to start a debate on relaxation now,” he told the newspaper. “Unfortunately, the Corona winter will be long.”
Meanwhile, the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) has sped up the lot verification process and promised that lot release could still be granted on approval day. “The Paul Ehrlich Institute has made preparations for batch tests, received the first test samples and started the first investigations,” PEI reported to “Bild am Sonntag”. Approval takes place “when the approval requirements for the manufacturing and control methods specified in the approval documents are met.” In the current case, this can take place after approval at the earliest. ‘ In the same day “.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is currently reviewing emergency approvals for vaccines in all EU countries that have already been approved in the US, among others. It has announced that it will decide on Monday on the vaccine from the Mainz-based company Biontech and its US partner Pfizer and on January 6 on the vaccine from the American pharmaceutical company Moderna. If the vote is positive, the first people in Germany and the other EU countries should be vaccinated before the end of the year.
