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[B-2]Too few vaccines were purchased for the first quarter of 2022, resulting in insufficient quantities for the booster campaign[B-3]
[B-4]A "significant shortage" of [B-5]vaccines[B-6] against [B-7]COVID-19[B-8] was reported by the new Health Minister [B-9]Karl Lauterbach[B-10], revealing that the previous [B-11]government[B-12] had ordered fewer doses of vaccines than necessary to allow the vaccination campaign to proceed quickly.[B-13][B-14]"The situation is extremely difficult. I have always praised my predecessor. But we have a serious shortage of vaccines for next year. That's what our census has shown," Mr Lauterbach is reported - according to Der Spiegel - to have told the health ministers of the federal states with whom he had a long consultation last night.B-15][B-16][B-16] He explained that very few vaccines had been purchased for the first quarter of 2022, with the result that[B-17] there were insufficient quantities for the booster campaign.[B-18][B-19][B-20]"There is a shortage (of doses) of the vaccine in the important month of the vaccination campaign, and for February and March the situation is no better. In the last weeks of this year there were only 1.2 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and in the first week of January there will be as many more," the new health minister explained, explaining that, with this data, the number of vaccine doses will be reduced to one-sixth of what it was before, while in the second, third and fourth weeks of January there will be a total of 3.6 million vaccines for booster doses.[B-21][B-22]Mr. Lauterbach noted, however, that the U.S. pharmaceutical company Moderna could during this period deliver at least 10 million vaccines per week and promised to personally contact the two companies that produce mRNA vaccines, as well as other countries, if necessary.[B-23][B-24]According to Spiegel,[B-25] the state health ministers were "shocked" by the figures presented to them by Mr. Lauterbach[B-26] in the midst of a pandemic outbreak and because of the new Omicron variant.[B-27][B-28]The Ministry of Health, under its new leadership, advised last week that a detailed inventory of the vaccines available in the country would be taken, as well as the contracts signed for deliveries of doses within the first quarter of 2022.[B-29]
[B-30]Source: AMP[B-31][B-31]
[B-32]Contents of this article including associated images are belongs [B-33]Cyprus Times[B-34]
Views & opinions expressed are those of the author and/or [B-35]Cyprus Times[B-36][B-37]
[B-38]Source[B-39]
[B-2]Too few vaccines were purchased for the first quarter of 2022, resulting in insufficient quantities for the booster campaign[B-3]
[B-4]A "significant shortage" of [B-5]vaccines[B-6] against [B-7]COVID-19[B-8] was reported by the new Health Minister [B-9]Karl Lauterbach[B-10], revealing that the previous [B-11]government[B-12] had ordered fewer doses of vaccines than necessary to allow the vaccination campaign to proceed quickly.[B-13][B-14]"The situation is extremely difficult. I have always praised my predecessor. But we have a serious shortage of vaccines for next year. That's what our census has shown," Mr Lauterbach is reported - according to Der Spiegel - to have told the health ministers of the federal states with whom he had a long consultation last night.B-15][B-16][B-16] He explained that very few vaccines had been purchased for the first quarter of 2022, with the result that[B-17] there were insufficient quantities for the booster campaign.[B-18][B-19][B-20]"There is a shortage (of doses) of the vaccine in the important month of the vaccination campaign, and for February and March the situation is no better. In the last weeks of this year there were only 1.2 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and in the first week of January there will be as many more," the new health minister explained, explaining that, with this data, the number of vaccine doses will be reduced to one-sixth of what it was before, while in the second, third and fourth weeks of January there will be a total of 3.6 million vaccines for booster doses.[B-21][B-22]Mr. Lauterbach noted, however, that the U.S. pharmaceutical company Moderna could during this period deliver at least 10 million vaccines per week and promised to personally contact the two companies that produce mRNA vaccines, as well as other countries, if necessary.[B-23][B-24]According to Spiegel,[B-25] the state health ministers were "shocked" by the figures presented to them by Mr. Lauterbach[B-26] in the midst of a pandemic outbreak and because of the new Omicron variant.[B-27][B-28]The Ministry of Health, under its new leadership, advised last week that a detailed inventory of the vaccines available in the country would be taken, as well as the contracts signed for deliveries of doses within the first quarter of 2022.[B-29]
[B-30]Source: AMP[B-31][B-31]
[B-32]Contents of this article including associated images are belongs [B-33]Cyprus Times[B-34]
Views & opinions expressed are those of the author and/or [B-35]Cyprus Times[B-36][B-37]
[B-38]Source[B-39]
