After the bumpy vaccination start in Munich, the city has now reacted.
In addition to the renovation of the exhibition hall, other measures are also being taken - with immediate effect.
Munich
- The city of Munich * reacts to the vaccination chaos in the Riem exhibition center.
After long queues in front of the hall in the past few days, heated tents were set up there.
In addition, the city has significantly enlarged the waiting area in the interior - four times as much.
The expansion and renovation work will continue until Monday.
Corona in Munich: vaccination chaos?
The city reacts with immediate measures
As the city announced on Friday, the tents were preheated overnight in view of the frosty temperatures.
Ramps now ensure that wheelchair users can also use the tents without any problems.
For people who arrive much too early before their vaccination appointment, two heated buses are available to warm up.
According to the city, the on-site service staff has also been increased.
This made it possible to shorten the duration of the entire vaccination process against Corona * from the original one and a half hours to currently less than an hour.
In addition to these immediate measures, a renovation of the exhibition hall has now started.
After that, there will be a waiting area four times as large with more seating in the hall so that no one will have to wait outside.
The city also wants to set up more toilets and separate entrances and exits for better control of visitor flows.
With all these measures, the conditions would also be created to be able to increase the capacities to over 6,000 vaccinations per day - as soon as more vaccine is available.
Corona vaccination: Munich got off to a bumpy start - almost 50,000 vaccinations carried out so far
In this respect it still looks poor.
As of Friday, almost 50,000 Corona * vaccinations were carried out in Munich *.
33,900 from the city teams and 15,800 vaccination doses were given to the Munich clinics, which vaccinate their staff themselves.
Because every person has to be vaccinated twice, only around two percent of Munich's total population is currently immunized.
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