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Saarbrücken (dpa / lrs) - Saarland will continue to hold back sufficient doses for the second vaccination against Corona.

And as long as there are delivery bottlenecks, said Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) on Monday after a "vaccination summit" by the federal government, states, the EU and the pharmaceutical industry.

"We do not want to win a speed competition in Saarland and thereby put people's health at risk."

With the vaccines previously approved, the effectiveness of the vaccination is demonstrably only given after the second vaccination.

"So it doesn't help if the Saarland tops the nationwide list of first vaccinations, but there aren't enough doses for the second vaccination," said Hans.

Since Astrazeneca's vaccine is not recommended for people over 65 years of age, he suggested that the younger nursing and medical staff and younger people from the risk group should be vaccinated more in the first prioritization group.

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"The availability of the vaccine is the bottleneck," emphasized Hans.

The vaccination is "currently our greatest hope to get the corona pandemic under control over the long term".

Plannability and planning security are of central importance.

"The existing vaccination strategy will be further developed between the federal and state governments and in this context a common vaccination plan will be drawn up," he announced.

The Prime Ministers of the federal states and Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) joined forces on Monday.

In view of the shortage of quantities, sometimes unsafe deliveries and the often overloaded telephone hotlines for vaccination appointments, criticism had built up.

States and municipalities demanded more reliability in delivery information so that the regional vaccination centers could plan better on site.

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