Corona: Many vaccination centers closed at Easter - The background has long been a known problem

The vaccination campaign is the great hope during the corona pandemic.

Not all vaccination centers will be open over Easter.

The cause is well known.

Munich - The coronavirus pandemic has been affecting life for more than a year: closed schools, a lack of club sports, shops on the verge of ruin.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 2.7 million people in Germany have been infected with the virus, and more than 75,000 have died as a result of the infection.

And the number of Covid-19 deaths threatens to rise in the third wave, including among younger people.

The great hope?

The vaccine.

But the vaccinations are slow.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Germany, 10.8 percent of the total population received an initial vaccination.

4.7 percent of the total population is fully vaccinated (as of March 29, 2021).

That corresponds to 3,877,894 people.

However, the British coronavirus mutation is of particular concern.

The number of cases has been rising again for a few days.

In the meantime, it remains to be seen whether great progress can be made in vaccination at Easter.

Not all vaccination centers in Germany should be open on the holidays.

Coronavirus: vaccination centers closed at Easter?

- "We don't have a vaccine for it"

As the

Bild-Zeitung

claims to have found out, no vaccinations should take place in Brandenburg, for example, on Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday.

In Thuringia, too, vaccination should not be carried out in full on the Easter holidays.

Only the vaccination center at the Erfurt fair should be open on Easter Saturday and Sunday.

KV vaccination manager Jörg Mertz said

according to

the

German Press Agency (dpa)

: "We would have liked to have vaccinated nationwide on Saturday and Sunday, but we don't have a vaccine for it." The problem seems to be a well-known one.

There is probably not enough vaccine available.

Corona vaccine in Germany: so many doses were delivered to Germany

According to the Robert Koch Institute, Germany received a total of almost 15.6 million vaccine doses from the manufacturers Biontech, Astrazeneca and Moderna (data status: March 28, 2021).

Almost 12.8 million doses were inoculated (data status: March 29, 2021).

Conversely, this means that just under 2.8 million cans are still available.

With regard to the current vaccination speed, there would in principle still be sufficient vaccine doses even after Easter.

However, the availability depends on the delivered portion and the respective vaccination speed and is therefore different from state to state.

Corona in Germany: Vaccination centers not open over Easter

In Baden-Württemberg, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said that vaccinations would also be carried out over Easter, depending on the vaccine available.

It is possible, however, that if there is not enough vaccine, centers spread appointments over the other days and close around Easter.

The Saarland Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday (March 24, 2021), according to the

dpa

, that vaccinations would be normal over Easter, "during the normal opening times - apart from Sunday."

Coronavirus: Schleswig-Holstein vaccinates "regardless of public holidays"

In Schleswig-Holstein, on the other hand, the vaccinations should continue to run normally over the holidays.

“The vaccination centers are open on the Easter holidays.

The vaccination appointments are given without a break, seven days a week, regardless of public holidays, ”

ln-online.de

quotes

the Ministry of Health.

In Lower Saxony, too, the holidays are to be used to drive the vaccination campaign forward.

"We have instructed the communal vaccination centers and asked them to continue vaccinating over the holidays," said a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health in Hanover.

Saxony-Anhalt also expressly wants to continue vaccinating.

Furthermore, the vaccinations in Bremen, Saxony and Berlin are to be continued over the holidays.

Chancellor Angela Merkel made a promise at "Anne Will" on Sunday evening (March 28, 2021): By the end of June, 50 million vaccine doses from different manufacturers would be available.

(mbr)