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Wednesday, December 30, 2020
No vaccine at the beginning of the year
States complain about cancellation: federal government gives in
Bitter news before the turn of the year: the first delivery of vaccines of the new year to several countries is canceled. In the capital, reprogramming is hectic. In countries, tens of thousands can only be vaccinated later.
After resentment in several countries over the cancellation of the delivery of vaccines, the federal government is presenting a supply scheduled for the second week of January. The vaccine from manufacturer Biontech will be available to the federal states on Friday, January 8, a ministry spokesman said. “After that the next delivery will take place on January 18, 2021 and thereafter initially weekly on Mondays. Initially around 670,000 cans will be delivered per week.” Berlin, Brandenburg and Bavaria had previously announced that the federal government had canceled a delivery scheduled for Monday and would not deliver new cans until a week later.
So far, deliveries have been as planned. “As planned, 1.3 million doses of vaccines were delivered to the federal states by the end of the year,” said a spokeswoman for the ntv ministry. The delivery made on Wednesday, “according to Biontech’s plans, also covers the first week of January.”
Resentment in the countries
“It is incomprehensible to me how you can simply skip a full delivery, especially with such a high number of infections,” complained Bavarian Health Minister Melanie Huml. “The really promised vaccination doses were already well planned in our vaccination centers.” Berlin Health Senator Dilek Kalayci said that we are now “in great difficulty because we have made our plans based on these commitments.” The vaccination start schedule for people over 80 living at home is having a first impact. Because Berlin was originally supposed to receive an additional 29,250 doses of vaccine from January 4. “We would have needed that to be able to start with the over 80s.” That doesn’t work now. There is also no replacement for him later on.
That’s why the roughly 23,400 people over the age of 90 would now be invited to vaccinations by letter, starting January 11 at the earliest. People between 80 and 90 years of age should only receive these letters later due to the delay in delivery of the vaccine. All invitations have a code with which people who want to be vaccinated can make an appointment at a vaccination center through a call center. Brandenburg’s minister in charge, Ursula Nonnemacher, said 19,500 doses of vaccines were planned per week for the state. This means that around 10,000 people can receive vaccination protection if they need two vaccines.
Spahn asks for patience
Kalayci asks the federal government to “organize the delivery a little more stable and faster. We cannot prepare everything here and then get that brake.” That was beyond regrettable. “I’m upset.” The vaccine shortage continues to be a problem for the start of vaccination in Germany.
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn asked for understanding for some initial difficulties. You can only ask for patience for this. Another vaccine delivery is due during the day, also with a view to the new year. The next installment is then planned “around the end of next week”. Then regular deliveries are scheduled every week in January, ideally the same day of the week.
Since last Sunday, mobile teams have already set out to vaccinate people in need of home care with the first more than 50,000 doses delivered to Berlin. Staff in clinics are already being immunized. In addition, the arena in Treptow opened the first vaccination center for nursing home staff. According to the ministry, 39,000 doses of vaccines have so far been delivered to Brandenburg. About 1,550 people had been vaccinated as of Tuesday, Nonnemacher said.
