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During the holidays, people worked hard in the Muttenzer field vineyard. The first Covid-19 vaccination center in the Basel area was installed in an empty commercial building a few meters from the Corona cantonal clarification station.
Health Director Thomas Weber (SVP) was visibly pleased today with the effort made during the holidays: “Many volunteers, retirees, but also company employees, craftsmen who have interrupted their vacations so that everything is ready have worked. “.
Muttenz is only supposed to be the beginning
Mobile vaccination teams have been traveling in homes for the elderly and elderly in the rural canton for a week. So far, according to the crisis team, nearly 200 residents have been vaccinated. At the Feldreben vaccination center in Muttenz, up to 1,000 people must be treated with the coronavirus vaccine per day.
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1/17 The canton of Baselland has put into operation its first Covid 19 vaccination center at the Muttenz clarification and testing station. (Image: key)
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3/17 The first 5,000 vaccination appointments are already booked. (Image: Telebasel)
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4/17 As soon as more doses of vaccines are available, new appointments should also be possible. (Image: Telebasel)
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5/17 You have to register at check-in. Before that, a security guard checks if you are logged in and if you meet the criteria. (Image: Telebasel)
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6/17 A free box is waiting in the waiting room. (Image: Telebasel)
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8/17 There is always a doctor at the center. (Image: Telebasel)
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9/17 A vaccination chamber in the center of Feldreben. (Image: Telebasel)
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13/17 The previous balance. (Image: Telebasel)
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14/17 The Feldreben vaccination center in Muttenz opened on January 4, 2021. (Image: Telebasel)
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15/17 Thomas Weber, Government Councilor of Basel-Landschaft and Head of the Department of Economics and Health, at the Feldreben vaccination center in Muttenz. (Image: key)
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16/17 The vaccine store should be strongly refrigerated. (Image: key)
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The rural canton wants to open more vaccination centers soon. The second will be installed in Lausen at the end of January. A third vaccination center is planned in Laufental. Laufen Hospital is currently being evaluated as a location there. The capacity of the inpatient centers will be increased to 3,000 vaccines per day.
Little vaccine was available at first
At the moment, this number is pure theory, because the vaccine is missing for so many daily vaccinations. For the first phase until January 22, the canton only has 14,000 doses available for stationary and mobile vaccines. As each person needs two syringes, only 7,000 people can be treated with them.
At the moment, only the Pfizer / Biontech vaccine, which was approved by the Swiss Medicines Institute Swissmedic on December 19, is available in the canton of Baselland. The crisis team hopes that more vaccines will be approved soon.
Born in 1945 as a frontier
Because the vaccine is so scarce, in the rural canton only people 75 years and older are vaccinated. This is because older fellow citizens are at higher risk. Of the previous deaths that can be attributed to the corona virus in Baselland, more than 90 percent are in this age group. The government assumes that around 31,000 people of this age live in the canton. Therefore, the next vaccine quotas would also be reserved for them.
Government calls for solidarity
Health Director Weber said during the inauguration that broad solidarity is now needed. The population must understand that particularly vulnerable people have priority in the distribution of vaccines. And if later other groups can be vaccinated, then it is an act of solidarity to vaccinate. Because this could make it very difficult for Corona to spread.
Registration is now also possible by phone
The first appointments were completed in one day. And the rush should also be great for the next contingents. According to Patrik Reiniger, head of the BL cantonal crisis team, in the future the registration options will be notified two days before the start of the registration process. The canton operates the website www.bl.ch/impfen for this purpose. Appointments should now also be able to be booked by phone.
Security personnel on site
It is important that only people who have previously registered can be vaccinated. Access to the vaccination center is monitored by security personnel. There, the reserves would be checked and it would be clarified again if the person willing to vaccinate really met the vaccination requirements.
