(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) German Health Minister expects vaccine to be available in the first quarter of next year
China News Agency, Berlin, October 12 (Reporter Peng Dawei) German Federal Minister of Health Spun said on the 12th that it is expected that the first batch of new crown vaccination will be available in the first quarter of next year.
As the German epidemic continues to rebound, most German states have recently implemented travel bans against high-risk areas such as Berlin, but this practice has also caused controversy.
The governors of various states are expected to further discuss the rationality of this new regulation at the joint governors meeting held on the 14th.
According to the real-time data of Germany's "Times Online", as of 18:00 on the 12th local time, Germany had a total of 328,173 confirmed cases, 276,868 cured, and 9,778 dead in Germany.
Span gave the above prediction when he attended the online seminar held by the ifo Economic Research Institute in Munich that day.
He said that based on the situation on October 12, Germany is expected to start providing the first batch of new crown vaccines for people to vaccinate in the first quarter of 2021.
He also said that there are multiple vaccine technologies under development at the same time, and multiple manufacturers are preparing. If everything is in place, Germany will have a huge number of vaccines.
As of the 12th, many large German cities such as Berlin, Munich, and Frankfurt have broken through the warning line of "50 new cases per 100,000 people in seven days", becoming the "high-risk areas" officially defined by Germany.
In order to avoid a new round of outbreaks, almost all federal states in Germany have introduced new regulations for people from high-risk areas in the past week, requiring these people to show a negative report of the new crown nucleic acid test within 48 hours before they can stay in hotels.
A reporter from China News Agency found that only the airport test stations in Frankfurt and Hamburg have the ability to "check in on demand" and issue reports on the same day.
The reporter tried to contact a private clinic in Berlin to make an appointment by email on the same day. The other party told him that “you need to dial a hotline first and wait patiently for the connection”.
Recently, the opposition party of the German Parliament and the German City Federation have expressed dissatisfaction with this regulation.
The mayors of Berlin and Bremen also expressed objections.
In this regard, Span called for the introduction of a unified national policy for the accommodation of people in high-risk areas.
He believes that it will be a very important step to formulate a unified policy and path at a joint meeting involving Prime Minister Merkel and state governors on the 14th.
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