Wednesday December 30th 2020
"Disappointed with small amount"
Criticism of federal vaccine distribution
After the start of the nationwide vaccination campaign, criticism of the unreliable delivery of the vaccine increased. Berlin's health senator says that too few doses are being distributed. Bavaria wants more predictability.
Berlin's Senator for Health Dilek Kalayci has accused the federal government of being poorly organized in distributing the corona vaccine. On the RBB-Inforadio, the SPD politician criticized the fact that too few vaccine doses had been distributed among the federal states: Berlin would get 58,500 vaccine doses by the end of the year, a delivery was still pending. "That would just be enough for the residents in the nursing homes." She added, "We're all disappointed with the small amount."
The federal government has now promised that Berlin will receive almost 30,000 more vaccine doses from the beginning of the year. However, there are uncertainties about the delivery dates, said the senator. That makes planning extremely difficult. That is why the Berlin vaccination centers are not in full operation.
What they "extremely annoyed" is the fact that the delivery date for the first week of January has still not been set. "We don't even know if the vaccine will come on Monday or Sunday, and that is of course extremely important for planning appointments." The day before, the city announced that a ready-to-use vaccination center would close again at the turn of the year. According to Kalayci, vaccinations will continue there from January 4th.
Bavaria's State Secretary for Health, Klaus Holetschek from the CSU, also hopes for more predictability and reliability from the federal government when it comes to the delivery of corona vaccines. If you want to make appointments in the vaccination centers, you have to know when which vaccine is available and in what quantity, he said.
"I would like the federal government to be more reliable," said Holetschek. Otherwise it is relatively difficult to give information to the people who call and ask the hotlines. According to Holetschek, there are already more than 8,000 reservations for the vaccination centers in Bavaria.
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