In addition to the delivery chaos, Germany has to overcome the next vaccination hurdle: distribution.
But digital appointment allocation creates more problems than solutions.
Anyone
over 80
in
Germany
will be vaccinated - at least that's the plan.
But not only the
vaccine
delivery
causes chaos, also the
appointment
.
In
North Rhine-Westphalia
, the
website
for assigning
vaccination appointments
collapsed on the first day.
Update from January 25th, 4:53 p.m.:
In the course of massive problems with the
online allocation
of vaccination
appointments
, the black and yellow
state government
in
North Rhine-Westphalia had to put up with
some criticism.
The SPD parliamentary group also criticized the start-up difficulties as “vaccination chaos”.
Mona Neubaur, state chairman of the Greens, spoke of a "complete disaster".
Prime Minister Armin Laschet, however, was confident and spoke of a "successful vaccination start".
The CDU chairman emphasized that tens of thousands of people had an appointment.
It was clear that there would be “congestion” in the allocation of appointments at the beginning.
Corona vaccination chaos in NRW: website with appointments collapses - "a complete fail"
Initial report:
Düsseldorf - Since Christmas,
vaccination teams
all over
Germany
have been busy
vaccinating high-
risk patients
against the
coronavirus
.
But not only the delivery, also the distribution of the
corona vaccine
is more complicated than hoped.
While
mobile teams
take care of the vaccinations of patients in health and care facilities, the rest of the endangered group of people must
try to
make an
appointment
.
The design in the various
federal states
very different: Most will be on
the phone
- and
online
-
services
set.
However, many
older people
are overwhelmed by arranging a vaccination appointment.
The fact that the process
has been delayed
by the ongoing
delivery problems
doesn't exactly make things any easier.
In
North Rhine-Westphalia
, the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, in addition to the hotline 0800 116 117 01 (Rhineland) and 0800 116 117 02 (Westphalia), has a website for making appointments.
On January
25th, people
over 80 should
get
an
appointment
here from
8 a.m.
Vaccination website for appointment processing in North Rhine-Westphalia overwhelmed: complaints are increasing - "complete fail?"
Anyone who has a
computer
and can therefore even take advantage of the opportunity has to expect an error message since Monday.
The website
www.116117.de
collapsed in the morning under the
rush of
the many corona vaccination candidates.
Complaints
and inquiries also increased on social media.
"The message currently appears: Call us.
What follows the announcement: 'Unfortunately, due to the
high demand
, our
lines are overloaded
.' ", Complained an angry user on Twitter.
"What should this @ 116117
digitization of
the registration for vaccination be, if not a
complete fail
?"
At about
11.30 a.m.
, the
error
could be fixed for the time being.
The cash association
and the
Ministry of Health
asked for
patience
with the telephone and digital appointments.
“We are working at full speed to eliminate the bottlenecks.” The problems continue in the afternoon.
Anyone who visits the website usually receives the message: “Unfortunately, due to the increased demand, it is currently not possible to book vaccination appointments.
We are working hard to quickly restore the online booking service.
Please try again later."
Unfortunately,
making appointments is
not the only problem with the nationwide distribution of
coronavirus vaccines
.
Even the way to the vaccination center poses problems for many older people in Germany.
In the strategies of most of the state governments, vaccination appointments at home or with the family doctor are not currently provided.
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