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Sunday, December 27, 2020
Berlin vaccinates under police protection
The first older adults receive the corona vaccine
The vaccination campaign against the corona virus has started in several German cities. The first woman in Berlin to receive the vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer is already 101 years old. Several police vans are parked in front of his nursing home. The Berlin senator for Health is satisfied.
Vaccinations against the corona virus have started nationwide. In the morning in Berlin, Getrud Haase, 101, received an injection with the Biontech and Pfizer vaccine at a nursing home in the presence of Health Senator Dilek Kalayci. Immediately afterwards, two more elderly people were vaccinated. Police vans were placed in front of the facilities. The mobile vaccination team arrived in a van around 7.45am. A Bundeswehr soldier was at the wheel.
Kalayci was relieved by the “good start” for the vaccines. It is the sign that it is never too late for vaccination, said the senator. For older people in particular, vaccines could prevent serious illness and suffering. The SPD politician appealed to family doctors to prepare well their patients in nursing homes for vaccination and accompany them. The mobile vaccination team, which was deployed for the first time, “worked very well.”
In the morning in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, 95-year-old Erika Löwer was vaccinated in a nursing home. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, vaccinations began in a health center in Güstrow. “We started cautiously and carefully,” district spokesman Michael Fengler told the NDR. In Magdeburg, three mobile vaccination teams started shortly before 9 am to vaccinate the residents of a municipal nursing home, as Matthias Boxhorn, head of organization for the regional association responsible for Johanniter, said. Around 120 elderly people and around 60 employees wanted to get vaccinated.
The unprecedented vaccination campaign against Covid-19 begins this Sunday throughout Germany. First, people over 80 years of age should be vaccinated, as well as nurses and hospital staff who are at special risk. To this end, mobile vaccination teams in particular will be on the move. Most of the more than 400 vaccination centers will not be operational until the next few days.
Saxony-Anhalt rushes forward
Dirk Heinrich (right), medical director of the Hamburg vaccination center in the exhibition rooms, accompanies the arrival of the vaccine at the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in the Poppenbüttel district.
(Photo: Picture Alliance / dpa)
At a senior center in Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt, the first residents and employees were vaccinated on Saturday because the Harz district did not want to wait any longer. Edith Kwoizalla, 101, was vaccinated, as were about 40 of the 59 residents. Ten of the 40 employees wanted to get vaccinated.
“Every day counts for us,” said the district’s vaccination center technical director, Immo Kramer of the MDR. Karsten Fischer of the district pandemic staff told the broadcaster: “We don’t want to waste this day when the vaccine loses its shelf life. We want to distribute it immediately.”
A high vaccination rate is needed
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn was surprised by the early start of vaccination in the Harz district. Spahn’s spokesman told “Bild am Sonntag” that the minister is happy with Edith Kwoizalla and wishes her all the best. However, the spokesperson emphasized: “However, we had agreed with all the partner countries of the EU and with the 16 federal states to deliver everyone on Saturday and start vaccinations together from Sunday.”
The federal government advocates that as many people as possible get vaccinated, also to protect others. According to experts, a vaccination rate of 60 to 70 percent is necessary to control the pandemic. According to current polls, 65 percent of Germans intend to get vaccinated.
