Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder announced his pleasure to Chancellor Angela Merkel and his government at the reluctance to deal with the virus situation and agreed to buy two and a half million doses of Sputnik V vaccine with Russia, according to the Bavarian Ministry of Health.
Regional Prime Minister Marcus Söder announced in a letter of intent on Friday that Bavaria will buy 2.5 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine from Russia, the EU Affairs Monitor reported. Euractiv news portal.
The news portal reports that Bavaria has fulfilled the testimony of Angela Merkel and her government, especially the German Minister of Health Jens Spahn, in dealing with the epidemiological situation (and vaccine requests in particular). Span announced on Thursday that The German government makes it conditional on the outcome of an official investigation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Russian vaccine application.
In a statement, the regional health ministry said that in addition to the possibility of importing the vaccine from Russia, it has also opened up to the Russian pharmaceutical company R Pharm to set up its own plant in Ilertien, Bavaria.
“Recent experience in the field of vaccination supply shows that it is very important to establish local production capacity in Germany as well.”
Bavarian Health Minister Klaus Holicek said.
According to Reuters, Bavarian Prime Minister Söder announced the region’s readiness to purchase 2.5 million doses of Sputnik V if the vaccine is approved in the European Union. He added that production of the Sputnik V could start in Bavaria.#SputnikV pic.twitter.com/mkxVUapbAt
– RM News (@MamedovRajab) April 7, 2021
The minister considered the Russian vaccine safe and welcomed the fact that Bavaria had the opportunity to apply for open aid through a special agreement.
The Russian vaccine experience has been largely positive so far.
A Twitter site dedicated to Sputnik V reported that 20,000 doses of the vaccine were delivered to Paraguay on Friday.
Paraguay receives Sputnik F. https://t.co/olygNyCjwf
– Sputnik V (sputnikvaccine) April 9, 2021
The Sputnik V vaccine is safe and has an effectiveness of over 90 percent, according to an analysis in the medical journal The Lancet.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian recently accused Russia and China of using their coronavirus vaccines only to gain foreign influence.
