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German authorities are setting up vaccination centers in different regions of the country. The goal is to have everything ready if the vaccine created by Pfizer and the German company BioNTech is approved by the health authorities in December.
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In Berlin, the hospital hastily enabled to receive infected patients in March and April is closed and is one of the places that should be used to immunize the population. Albrecht Broemme, specialist in humanitarian missions abroad, The vaccination of 450 thousand inhabitants of the capital must be prepared in mid-December..
The goal, he says, is perform 20 thousand injections per day. “The idea is that each person is around 1:15 in the place,” he declares. According to him, two doses will be necessary. The campaign, he said, should take two months and Only the elderly and people belonging to the risk group, such as diabetics, obese and hypertensive, will be immunized..
The vaccines will then be done by doctors in their offices. Before that, the government will have to organize logistics around the preservation of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, which must be kept at -75 ° C, which requires special freezers.
Vaccination centers must be open seven days a week, from 9 am to 7 pm. The government plans to summon retired nurses, medical students, receptionists and security officers to assist in the campaign. More than 300 people have already offered their services spontaneously.
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Restrictions can continue until March
According to Economy Minister Peter Altmaier, restrictions to contain the spread of the virus in the country, which has gained strength in recent weeks, could continue until spring. Measures include closing bars and restaurants and limiting participants in private meetings
“We have three or four long winter months ahead of us. Everything will depend on the arrival of vaccines, but it is possible that the restrictions will last during the first months of 2021,” the minister told Die Welt newspaper.
Germany, considered an example of handling during the first wave, was hit hard by the second and recorded more than 15,500 deaths from Covid-19, in addition to one million confirmed cases. North Rhine Westphalia, the most populous state in the country, is the most affected, with more than 250,000 cases, ahead of Bavaria, with almost 198,000 infected, and Baden-Württemberg (almost 143,000). In Berlin, around 62,000 cases have been reported since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We still have to make efforts … the daily number of infections is still very high,” Chancellor Angela Merkel said after seven hours of talks with the leaders of Germany’s 16 regional states. For now, bars, restaurants, cultural and sports centers must remain closed for another month.
