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An order from others 30 million dose with Biontech. Yesterday, December 28, the spokesman for the German Ministry of Health announced that Germany has bilaterally agreed with the manufacturer of the first approved coronavirus vaccine in the world. After the controversy over the number of doses received on V-Day (beyond 150 thousand instead of 9,750), what trip on from Berlin to the “European solidarity” agreement aggravates discontent.
In the months prior to Ema’s approval of Pfizer / BioNTech, the various ministers of the member countries had agreed that only the European Commission could act to stipulate the purchase contracts. Germany’s move threatens to blow up everything, considering that its government has also agreed to increase production of the vaccine on German soil (an advantage that Health Minister Jens Spahn had always denied wanting to exploit).
According to the German newspaper imageIn addition, Berlin would have moved autonomously also with the American Modern, whose product should be approved in days, buying other 50 million dose. An attitude that takes Italian ministers and connoisseurs off guard, especially Roberto Speranza and Commissioner Domenico Arcuri, who from the beginning have traced the importance of having a European negotiation line.
In Italy, bad weather slows down plans
Meanwhile in Italy, where the 470 thousand Doses scheduled for this week, bad weather and snow in the north run the risk of postponing deliveries scheduled for today. The pharmaceutical company will confirm today whether or not it will be possible to maintain faith in the deadline imposed by the vaccination plan that has now begun (at least symbolically) throughout the European Union. Piedmont and Liguria, at the meeting of the Regions last night, have already announced that it will not be discussed before tomorrow, December 30.
More doses in a vial: we will have 5 million more
However, there is good news. This is the discovery, already revealed by the United States a few days ago, of the presence of several doses in a single vial: 6 instead of 5. Last night the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) and the Ministry of Health gave the go-ahead to the health structures to review the subdivision and, in this way, we will have the twenty% more doses to distribute to the population. The total through September will automatically increase from 26.92 million a more than 32.
Cover image: ANSA / ANGELO CARCONI
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