Delivery of the first cans of vaccines with police protection «kleinezeitung.at



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According to the Interior Ministry, the first transport with the coronavirus vaccine from the manufacturer Biontech / Pfizer passed the border with Austria on Saturday night.

8:18 am, December 26, 2020

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Delivery with about 10,000 cans It started in Puurs, Belgium and arrived at the Austrian border crossing at Suben in Upper Austria via Germany around 2 am There, transport was taken over by units from the Vienna and Upper Austria regional transport departments.

First shots on Sunday

Several police patrols took over the state border Accompanying the delicate cargowhich is taken directly to a distribution center in Vienna. The SARS-CoV-2 vaccination doses are distributed to the federal states from the interim storage facility in Simmering. According to Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP), up to 975 cans can be accessed per federal state. The first vaccinations will be administered on Sunday. In Vienna, for example, five volunteers – all of them at-risk patients over 80 years of age – who received the first of two doses.

“Since the beginning of the pandemic in March, the police have been a key actor in curbing the spread of the virus. Ensuring the transport of the vaccine to its destination is also part of these measures,” said Interior Minister Karl Nehammer ( ÖVP). The next doses of vaccination will continue in the transport from December 28. “This allows us to go one step further, in combination with several others, to contain the pandemic,” the Interior Minister said.

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