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Maria Schirl was allowed to feel like a celebrity for a moment. When the 90-year-old left the Sierning District Nursing and Care Home (Steyr-Land District) yesterday afternoon, applause erupted. The caretakers clapped, the strollers stopped to take a look. The woman who was the first in Upper Austria to be vaccinated against Covid-19. You didn’t “do anything special,” Schirl said, smiling and adjusting his glasses. You risked having more security.
“I have been through many epidemics in my life and I know what it means to be vaccinated. So far I have had a good time in this difficult time and I want it to continue,” he said. And after all, someone has to be first. He did not feel any side effects or pain. “I ate well after vaccination, then I slept and now I’m here. I’m fine,” said the 90-year-old. In addition to Schirl, the vaccine was also injected yesterday into nursing director Sabine Wimmer. “It takes a little courage, but it doesn’t hurt. I don’t see any other way out of the pandemic and I have total faith in science,” Wimmer said.
“It can be a turning point”
With the start of vaccination, he now hopes that “the daily worries will finally be less.” He emphasized that vaccination at home is voluntary and that no one is obliged to do so, but that the provision is particularly large. 40 doses of vaccination had been provided for the nursing home in Sierning, which was affected by the coronavirus in both spring and fall. They should be used in the next few days. In January, between 16,000 and 20,000 people will be vaccinated in households in Upper Austria.
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For Vice Governor Christine Haberlander (VP), yesterday December 27 was “a day of hope for Upper Austria.” The virus claimed 1,155 victims in the country until yesterday afternoon, now every day that it is vaccinated is “one more step towards normality.”
State social counselor Birgit Gerstorfer (SP) now wants to develop “the will to be vaccinated” so that the disease can become “a disease like many others” in the future. Convincing people of the need and usefulness of the vaccine is now the most important step for Bernd Lamprecht, Director of the Pneumology Clinic at Kepler University Hospital in Linz: “Vaccination may be the turning point in our efforts to overcome this health crisis. “The corona vaccine is” highly effective “and does not differ in tolerance from established vaccines against other viral diseases. He will also get vaccinated “as soon as possible,” Lamprecht said.
Steyr-Land District Commissioner Carmen Breitwieser thanked all nurses for “tireless efforts” and called vaccination “a particularly important sign.” (against)
