Munich's vaccination center in the fair is ready to go.
It should start on December 27th.
First of all, residents and employees of old people's homes and homes for the disabled are vaccinated by mobile emergency teams.
On December 27th, the first vaccinations are to
start
in
Munich *
by mobile teams
.
The fair in Riem will be the new vaccination center.
After the residents and employees of homes for the elderly and the disabled, people over 80 years of age follow.
Munich - In the entrance area of
exhibition hall C3 it
looks like at the airport.
Ten check-in counters are available for visitors.
Those people who have a vaccination appointment must register here.
Then it's around the corner into another, larger hall - the waiting area.
Who's your turn to vaccinate is called and then enters a booth.
A doctor and an administrator are waiting here.
Before the vaccination is given, there is an informative discussion.
Then a second appointment will be made.
Because the
administration of the vaccine should be repeated within three weeks
.
All in all, the procedure should take around an hour, estimates Wolfgang Schäuble, head of the Munich professional fire brigade, who was entrusted with the management of the vaccination center.
It is operated by the Aicher Ambulanz in cooperation with the ambulance service MKT Krankentransport.
"The vaccination should serve as a ticket and hope for us back to a normal life"
This Monday, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) and Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) pay a visit to the vaccination center.
Both of them take this opportunity to urge themselves to be vaccinated.
“That offers the best security,” says Söder, who not only detests the “highly dangerous
coronavirus *
”, but also the “virus of skepticism and ignorance”.
And Reiter assists: "The vaccination should serve as a ticket and hope for us back to a normal life." The vaccination capacity in Riem is currently 2000 and in the final stage
8000 people per day
.
Söder and Reiter want to push the tube.
However, one also depends on how quickly and in what size the federal government makes vaccination doses available.
The Prime Minister therefore asks the citizens for their understanding.
The motto is: "Patience, patience, patience."
How long it could take until a large part of the population is immunized against the coronavirus is shown by the example of the metropolis of Munich.
Of the 1.55 million inhabitants, around 120,000 people belong to priority level 1.
Starting on December 27th, the turn of the approximately 30,000 residents and employees of the old people's and handicapped homes will be the first.
Up to 20 teams are deployed here and can vaccinate a total of 600 people per day.
If you want to be vaccinated, you can make an appointment in the Messehalle Riem by phone or online
Starting next week, people over 80 years of age (around 80,000 citizens) who live in their own homes will be notified by the city by post.
If you want to be vaccinated, you can make an appointment in the Messehalle Riem by phone or online.
Reiter says that anyone who is no longer so mobile or sprightly can be accompanied by a caregiver.
If necessary, the city will also organize taxis.
Prioritization level 1 also includes employees in emergency rooms and Covid-19 wards, in the rescue service and in outpatient care services.
According to health officer Beatrix Zurek (SPD),
the first people in Riem should be vaccinated in four weeks at the earliest
.
It will probably take until March until all 120,000 people of priority level 1 are immunized in Munich.
According to the current state of knowledge, the state capital will only receive around 90,000 vaccine doses for the first four weeks.
Because a double vaccination is necessary, around 45,000 people are immunized in the first batch.
A prognosis as to when 60 percent of the population in Munich - a quota that experts consider sensible - could be vaccinated is now hardly possible.
Zurek and Schäuble hope that family doctor practices will also be equipped with the Corona * vaccine at some point.
And Zurek hopes that the death toll will drop once the vulnerable groups have been vaccinated.
Around 59 percent of the 483 Covid deaths in Munich so far were over 80 years old
.
36 percent between 61 and 80 years of age.
Five percent of the deceased were 60 years or younger.
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