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Modern delivers less vaccine than planned
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The Modern vaccine in a bottle
Source: dpa-infocom GmbH
Moderna will reduce delivery of vaccines, Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher announced. However, according to the Health Ministry, this will be offset by additional deliveries from other manufacturers.
meHere’s the next bad news: Moderna’s vaccine deliveries will also drop. The first mayor of Hamburg, Peter Tschentscher (SPD), announced it on Twitter. It refers to a communication from the Federal Chancellery. “How to plan vaccinations?” He writes.
However, according to the Health Ministry, the reduction in vaccine deliveries by the biotech group is more than offset in Germany by additional deliveries from other manufacturers. While Moderna was delivering 43,200 fewer doses than planned, BioNTech and AstraZeneca delivered 1,747,000 more doses of vaccines than previously planned to the federal states on February 22, the ministry said on Twitter.
The AstraZeneca company announced last week that it would initially deliver significantly fewer vaccines to the EU than planned, leading to a fierce supply dispute.
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) expects another five million doses of vaccines from the three manufacturers AstraZeneca, Biontech and Moderna by February.
The companies had announced deliveries with delivery dates for February 22, Spahn said Saturday at a discussion event with experts and representatives from the care industry. So far 3.5 million cans have been delivered, more than two million of which have already been inoculated.
“There are vaccinations every week,” Spahn said. But it has to be more. The minister asked for understanding for the initial problems. It is the largest vaccination campaign in the history of Germany. The beginning was “difficult”, but the “path has begun”, said the minister.
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