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“It goes without saying that you sign up for a vaccine before you get sick,” says 89-year-old Berta Kern at the “Haus an der Traisen” in St. Pölten. The nursing home resident sits in the chair next to the doctor and nurse, who rolls up their sleeves. Karl Zwiauer, a doctor at St. Pölten University Hospital and a member of the National Vaccination Committee, will make this 89-year-old man the first in Lower Austria to receive the injection against Corona. She is not excited, says the lady: “But where! It is not my first shot.”
After a few seconds, this moment that many people had been waiting for months was over. The next to be vaccinated is a resident of the same age and a 97-year-old resident of the home, then it is the turn of the first employees of the assistance center. “I was a little scared because I don’t like needles very much. But now it’s a good feeling,” says a NÖN cleaning lady while pressing a gauze pad to the puncture site.
Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner is convinced that with this event on December 27, 2020 at the “Haus an der Traisen” a piece of medical history was written: “It’s just a little trick, but a big deadline,” she says. the politician. who, with Federal Minister Klaudia Tanner (both ÖVP), is closely following the first vaccination in Lower Austria. The change and the path back to normality would have begun.
The first vaccines are administered in 24 locations
Along with Upper Austria and Vienna, Lower Austria is one of the first federal states to carry out vaccines against Corona. It received a pre-shipment of the vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer. A total of around 1,500 doses of vaccine are available for Lower Austria in this first phase. After the vaccination at the facilities of the State Health Agency, it will be the turn of the Caritas Elisabeth house today, December 27. In the coming days, more vaccines will be administered in about 30 locations in Lower Austria. Most of them to residents and employees of care and nursing centers of the State Health Agency and two private institutions. Additionally, employees who have volunteered to get vaccinated are vaccinated at some hospitals.
The first big change is expected in early January.
At the beginning of January, the nationwide vaccination of residents and employees of care centers throughout Austria will begin. In Lower Austria, the first big change is expected between January 10 and 12. Health sector personnel at high risk of exposure in hospitals, rescue service and testing personnel, mobile health services and employees in specialties ordinations, as well as members of the high-risk group, they should be vaccinated later.
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