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Next year everything should improve. A coronavirus vaccine should finally be available in January. For Bern’s health director, Pierre Alain Schnegg (58), it is a decisive step in the fight against the pandemic. This week he spoke of a “ray of hope at this stressful time for everyone.”
The Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) also announced its vaccination strategy Thursday. People who are at special risk are the first to get vaccinated. Then nursing and support staff. In the next step, vaccines should be available to all other adults who want to be vaccinated. It will likely be until May 2021 before sufficient doses of vaccine are available.
Kantönli spirit also when vaccinating
The cantons are already at the base. Everything is waiting for Swissmedic to approve the vaccines and the federal government to deliver them. Organizational and logistical preparations are in full swing.
It also has the S t. GRID The government announced its vaccination strategy on Thursday. To begin with, it dispensed with vaccination centers in exhibition halls or gymnasiums and relied in advance on existing structures such as hospitals and general practitioners: “The canton would like to offer vaccination at a low threshold level.
Canton Bern was the first to present his strategy on Monday. Vaccination is decentralized in the vaccination centers managed by the regional hospitals. There will also be a location at the Migros Park in Wankdorf.
Corona vaccine from January: Every second Berner should be vaccinated by mid-2021(01:07)
Mobile teams are deployed in the regions for people who cannot reach the vaccination centers on their own. In a second step, the canton wants to vaccinate homes for the elderly and the elderly. Afterwards, doctors’ offices and possibly pharmacies should also be able to vaccinate. The canton would also appreciate if the Spitex could also vaccinate.
Not all cantons have yet decided on a strategy
Baselland wants to start with a central station for corona vaccines. In Basel city A vaccination center is installed in the halls of the Swiss Exhibition. On Tuesday, the government approved 11.8 million francs for the establishment and operation, as well as for the purchase of the vaccines. The center is operated by a private provider.
In the canton Zürich The Zurich City Travel Medicine Center will be the reference vaccination center. Mobile vaccination teams are also planned, for example for households. The locations of potential vaccination centers are still being examined. at Tessin you will be vaccinated in up to six vaccination centers or by doctors, a mobile team is also planned.
In western Switzerland, the cantons want Law, Freiburg and Neuenburg report on the procedure in the coming weeks. At Waadt You will be vaccinated in centers and with mobile teams that will be used in nursing homes. the Wallis it is based on three pillars: family doctors, pharmacies and three vaccination centers.
“I expect some fever and headache”
In the canton Lucerne Vaccination centers and decentralized options, such as practices and mobile teams, are examined as locations. Vaccination should start as soon as the vaccine is available. Canton Zug in turn, it is planning a vaccination center and a mobile vaccination team. Nidwalden wants to carry out vaccination in a decentralized way in doctor’s offices and pharmacies. But there is also a concept of a vaccination center.
Canton Solothurn plans to start the vaccination campaign with a central vaccination center in Solothurn. In addition, mobile vaccination teams supply regional facilities such as homes for the elderly and the elderly. The goal: to reduce the number of serious illnesses and deaths. In this way, the capacity of hospitals and other health facilities will be maintained and staff shortages will be avoided.
The canton too Appenzell Ausserrhoden remember to open vaccination centers. In Appenzell Innerrhoden Vaccination centers are established in hospitals and in general practitioners’ offices. Canton Glarus consider a cantonal vaccination center. Cantonal deputy doctor Ulrich Nägeli also wants to get vaccinated, as he reveals to the “Glarner Nachrichten”: “I expect a little fever and headache when my immune system mobilizes the defense”. (dba)
