Late start of vaccination: why Germany is faster than Switzerland when it comes to vaccination against Covid



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Germans start the vaccination campaign in mid-December, Switzerland only in spring. It does not depend on the manufacturers, the reason is elsewhere.

Test in Ulm: Baden-Württemberg Minister of Social Affairs Manne Mucha has an emergency paramedic demonstrate the vaccination process.

Test in Ulm: Baden-Württemberg Minister of Social Affairs Manne Mucha has an emergency paramedic demonstrate the vaccination process.

Photo: Stefan Puchner (Keystone)

Vaccination centers are already being prepared in Germany. In two or three weeks, the first people from our neighbors will be vaccinated against Covid, as announced by the German Health Minister Jens Spahn. The United States is also at the bottom of the shots before Christmas. Switzerland, on the other hand, will see first.

“We are doing it as soon as possible, but there will probably only be one vaccine in the course of the first half of 2021,” Virgine Masserey of the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) said at the press conference on Tuesday.

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