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Teachers are still not given preferential vaccination against the coronavirus.
The new vaccination ordinance, which has been in force since Monday, does not contain any special regulations for teachers or daycare staff, said Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) on Monday after consultations with the Corona cabinet.
Spahn justified this, among other things, with the shortage of vaccination doses.
Such a prioritization requires vaccination doses in a number that is not yet available.
In addition, Spahn pointed out that the question was still to what extent daycare centers and schools are hubs for the corona virus.
It is about where the risk is highest - this is the case for older people.
In view of the limited number of vaccines, Spahn does not currently consider it possible that patients can choose which vaccine from which manufacturer they will be vaccinated with, he said.
According to a laboratory study, the corona vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer is also effective against the variants of Sars-CoV-2 that have appeared for the first time in Great Britain and South Africa.
The data from the study were published in the journal "Nature Medicine", both companies announced on Monday.
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It has been shown in the laboratory that the blood of 20 people vaccinated with the vaccine neutralized the key mutations of the coronavirus variants from Great Britain and South Africa, meaning that there were sufficient neutralizing antibodies in the blood.
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