In Bavaria's vaccination centers, no more appointments for corona initial vaccinations with Astrazeneca should be given from April 19.
This emerges from a letter from the Ministry of Health.
Update from April 6th, 8:24 pm:
The first letter arrived on Easter Sunday.
The Bavarian Vaccination Strategy Taskforce informs the districts that there will only be appointments for initial vaccinations with Astrazeneca in the vaccination centers until April 19.
Anyone who registers for vaccination afterwards should receive Biontech or Moderna - no matter how old they are.
However, since there are still second appointments for over-60-year-olds who have already been vaccinated with Astrazeneca, the centers should reset doses for this, it is initially said.
Then yesterday the next change of pace.
In another message from the Ministry of Health, the vaccination centers are now being asked to vaccinate all Astrazeneca vaccines available to people over the age of 60 as quickly as possible - “as soon as possible, possibly as part of special campaigns”.
In addition, the ministry makes it clear: "Provisions for later second vaccinations for this group of people should not be made." What cannot be vaccinated can be passed on to the doctor's office.
Bavaria is now obviously planning an Astrazeneca offensive.
Coronavirus: EU Medicines Agency warns of AstraZeneca - connections with thrombosis "clear"
Update from April 6th, 7:35 pm:
After the EU medicines authority EMA had recommended the Astrazeneca vaccine as safe last week, the head of the EMA vaccination department, Marco Cavaleri, said yesterday: It was “clear” that there was a “connection “Between the Astrazeneca vaccination and the accumulation of blood clots.
In Germany, as a precaution, the vaccine is therefore only used in people aged 60 and over.
Countries like France and Canada also restricted the use of the vaccine, Denmark stopped it entirely.
Corona turnaround: Bavaria stops Astrazeneca initial vaccinations in vaccination centers
First report from April 6th, 2:14 p.m .:
Munich - In Bavarian vaccination centers, from April 19, no more appointments for first vaccinations with Astrazeneca * will be given.
This emerges from a letter from the Bavarian Ministry of Health to the districts and affected organizations, which is available to the Münchner Merkur.
The BayIMCO appointment software will be reprogrammed in such a way that "appointments for first vaccinations with AstraZeneca including April 19, 2021 are no longer possible," it says.
Bavaria: No more corona first vaccinations with Astrazenca?
According to the letter, the vaccination centers will continue to be supplied with Astrazeneca until April 19.
“There are still four deliveries up to and including week 17 outstanding.
These deliveries are completely delivered to the vaccination centers for first and second vaccinations (for people who have reached the age of 60), ”it says.
Second vaccinations with Astrazeneca will apparently continue to take place in the vaccination centers after April 19.
The Ministry asks the institutions to “postpone doses for second vaccinations for people who have reached the age of 60”.
With regard to younger people who have been vaccinated, the ministry points out that "in view of the STIKO's recommendations, the upcoming second vaccinations with AstraZeneca should be carried out with BioNTech * every 12 weeks".
Astrazeneca: Relation to thrombosis confirmed
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Corona in Bavaria: Astrazeneca vaccinations - Bavaria is apparently increasingly relying on the medical profession
In the further handling of the vaccine *, which is suspected of having triggered dangerous blood clots in a few vaccinated people, Bavaria is apparently increasingly relying on the medical profession.
"If, in view of the current developments regarding AstraZeneca, a complete vaccination of the vaccination doses delivered in the vaccination centers is not possible even within the framework of the so-called hop-on procedure, the StMGP allows vaccination doses from AstraZeneca to resident doctors' practices for vaccination in the regular system give up ", it says in the letter.
The
Ministry of Health initially did not respond to
Merkur's
inquiries about the further reasons for the decision on Tuesday.
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