Germany needs to change its vaccination strategy to deal with the coronavirus variant Omicron and ensure that it can develop a new vaccine quickly if faced with a more deadly variant of the virus in the future, the federal minister said. Karl Lauterbach Health.
Lauterbach made the remarks in an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag, which will be published tomorrow.
“If there is a variant strain that is as contagious as Omicron and significantly more lethal, we should be able to develop and produce a new vaccine in a very short time,” he said.
The German government plans to set up a permanent system for the immediate purchase and distribution of vaccines at any time because there could be serious new outbreaks of the epidemic, Lautebach explained.
“We must not accept the naive assumption that (the pandemic) will end soon. It is not over “, he underlined.
Now 44% of new covid-19 cases in Germany are due to the Omicron strain, as announced by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
Today, the RKI announced that 55,889 new infections were detected in Germany in the past 24 hours, a number more than double the previous week.
German Chancellor Olaf Soltz and state prime ministers agreed on Friday to tighten entry rules for bars and restaurants in a bid to persuade more people to take a booster dose of covid-19 vaccine, but also announced a reduction in time. quarantine.
The Bundestag will soon discuss a bill on compulsory vaccination.
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