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Berlin (dpa) - The federal states are calling for a rapid expansion of corona vaccine production in Germany and are campaigning for an export stop for such vaccines from the EU.
"I am very much in favor of thinking about an export ban," said Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) on Thursday after a video switch from the country chiefs.
Nobody understands that there is not enough vaccine in the EU, but that vaccines from Europe are exported everywhere.
Söder referred to increasing corona numbers in Germany.
"We have to be careful that the third wave doesn't become a perm."
In contrast, vaccination helps as a central factor.
"The truth is clearly in the vaccination can."
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Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller (SPD) said that expanding production capacities for vaccines in this country is important because vaccination is the decisive lever against Corona.
And nobody knows whether there will be further pandemics in the future, for which Germany should be better prepared.
“I don't know whether this has to be an export ban overnight,” said Müller, who is the chairman of the conference of prime ministers.
There are contracts.
“But at the moment it is being exported to countries with their own production capacities that are more advanced than we are when it comes to vaccination.
You don't have to understand that. "
In view of the shortage of vaccines, Müller and Söder, but also other prime ministers, spoke out in favor of rapid approval of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V.
"We need every vaccine we can get," said Müller.
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The country chiefs had spoken to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as a guest of the switchboard about the need to apply for proper approval for the vaccine, as for others, and to examine it.
“But of course, if we have the chance to use this vaccine, we will of course want to and will seize this opportunity,” said Müller.
Söder pointed out that, according to all reports, Sputnik V is a good vaccine.
"Partly better than the one that has already been approved," he added.
Therefore, it is now not advisable to "work through everything in the classic bureaucratic small-small procedure" when checking the vaccine.
From his point of view, the responsible authorities should rather approve the substance “quickly, efficiently and quickly”.
The EU must also establish contact with the vaccine manufacturers at an early stage.
"My urgent appeal: don't miss another chance."
Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) told the newspapers of the Funke media group: "The vaccine should be approved."
He has no doubt that Russian science is capable of producing a powerful vaccine.
Saxony-Anhalt's head of government Reiner Haseloff (CDU) sees it similarly.
"In the fight against Corona, we welcome any vaccine that is safe and effective and thus helps us to overcome the pandemic," he told the Funke newspapers.
"When it comes to people's health, their origin shouldn't matter."
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In the opinion of Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left), “the issue of Sputnik V must finally be dealt with emphatically”.
He himself wanted to use his channels to Russia to help, he told the Funke-Blätter.
«I don't want political approval.
But I don't want any political rejection either. "
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