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Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia want to help the Czech Republic with a corona vaccine.
Saxony's government spokesman Ralph Schreiber said on Sunday the delivery of a total of 15,000 vaccine doses to the neighboring country is planned for Monday.
"MDR Aktuell" had previously reported on it.
The Czech government will therefore decide on the further distribution.
The Czech Republic currently has the highest infection rate in the entire EU.
The country with 10.7 million inhabitants has registered around 1.2 million infections since the beginning of the pandemic.
More than 20,000 corona patients died.
Baden-Württemberg's Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) wants to avoid possible controls at the borders with France and Switzerland with the help of mass tests.
In letters to Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann and Health Minister Manne Lucha (both Greens) Strobl writes: "Since we will not be making quick enough progress with vaccinations in the foreseeable future, I would like to urgently promote the best possible pandemic through a comprehensive test strategy in the border regions contain. "
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