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Status: 04.01.2021 5:52 pm
Hannover Medical School, Göttingen University Medical Center and Braunschweig Clinic will receive their first corona vaccine on Wednesday.
This should be used to vaccinate particularly at-risk personnel against the corona virus. Lower Saxony Health Minister Carola Reimann (SPD) announced this on Monday. “All other hospitals in Lower Saxony are monitored through local vaccination centers with mobile teams.” According to the ministry, more than 50,000 doses have already been delivered from the country to vaccination centers, and around 10,000 are still available for later deliveries this week.
No appointments with vaccination centers yet
Each of the 50 vaccination centers will initially receive around 1,000 doses of vaccine, as said the spokesman for the Ministry of Social Affairs, Oliver Grimm, NDR 1 Lower Saxony. This means that almost all of the vaccine that the country currently has available has been distributed. According to the Ministry, the mobile teams should have exhausted the vaccine by the end of the week. There should be resupply on Friday, but again on January 18. In Lower Saxony, in addition to nursing staff, very old people at special risk are first vaccinated. There are currently no appointments at the centers themselves.
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So far little vaccine in Lower Saxony
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), 5,394 people in Lower Saxony had been vaccinated against the corona virus on Monday. With 0.7 vaccines per 1,000 inhabitants, the state ranks second to last before Thuringia (0.4) in a national comparison. However, this is just a snapshot, Ministry spokesman Grimm said. Lower Saxony will catch up during the week. Currently, the vaccine is in short supply nationally. 63,000 cans that were due to reach Lower Saxony on Monday were completely removed. The country is expected to receive around one million cans by the end of March. Since two syringes are necessary for effective protection, around 500,000 of the nearly eight million in Lower Saxony could be vaccinated with them.
Discussion about the vaccination strategy
Due to the lack of vaccine doses, a dispute is developing within the grand coalition in Hannover. Lower Saxony’s Economy Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU) has proposed that the vaccination strategy be rethought. At “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “came out in favor of inoculating the existing vaccine more quickly and not withholding a second dose. The Ministry of Social Affairs, however, does not think so. Without the second dose, the vaccine would not work, they said. Furthermore, the vaccine had been approved accordingly. If everything is vaccinated now, one depends on the fact that enough vaccine is actually delivered, spokesman Grimm said.
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