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At the German vaccination summit yesterday there was nervousness. Manufacturers of vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) such as Pfizer / Biontech, Moderna and Astrazeneca do not deliver the requested vaccine doses. Now German politicians are beginning to look for alternatives. Vaccines from Russia, China, India, Cuba, and Iran are available on the international market.
European approval authorities should also test Russian and Chinese vaccines as soon as possible, Bavarian CSU Prime Minister Markus Söder (54) urged on Sunday in the “Welt”. And the CDU Health Minister, Jens Spahn (40), admits in the “FAZ” that the vaccines of these countries, once approved, could help to cope with the pandemic.
Russia wants to conquer the EU market
Sputnik V & Co. are no longer taboo in Europe. On Friday, the Kremlin state applied for approval of its vaccine to the EMA and offered the EU 100 million doses of the vaccine. Hungary has already taken a bite and ordered two million cans in Moscow.
Switzerland also suffers from bottlenecks in the delivery of corona vaccines. The Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) is sounding the alarm. There could only be half of the vaccines planned in February. That was reported by the “NZZ am Sonntag”. 1.3 million vaccinations were originally planned. There are now only 650,000 doses of vaccines available from Pfizer / Biontech and Moderna.
Offers do not come from medical developing countries
Will vaccines from the east help Switzerland out of the vaccination jam soon? Barely. “Only companies that have an approved branch in Switzerland can request their vaccine for our approval,” says Swissmedic spokesman Lukas Jaggi. Pfizer, Astrazeneca, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson have companies in Switzerland. Not so the manufacturers of the second row.
It shouldn’t be the vaccines themselves. “From a scientific point of view, some of them are certainly not bad,” says virologist Andreas Cerny, “Sputnik V is an adenovirus vaccine and similar to Astrazeneca.” The Chinese preparation also works, but it is not very innovative and probably not as powerful as the RNA vaccines from Pfizer / Biontech or Moderna. Unfortunately, very little is known about vaccines from Cuba and Iran.
Russia, China and India are not medical developing countries, on the contrary, according to the Ticino doctor. “You have to be alert. If studies are presented that meet international standards and vaccines are approved, they are definitely alternatives. “
