Söder-Minister reveals: Bavaria changes vaccination period significantly

Klaus Holetschek revealed that the corona vaccination period in Bavaria has been significantly changed.

The Free State has been implementing this for weeks.

Munich - In order to be able to vaccinate more people against the coronavirus * faster, the Free State relies on a greater interval between the first and second vaccination.

For three weeks, since March 12th, Bavaria has been implementing the recommendations of the Standing Vaccination Commission on the interval between vaccinations *, as Health Minister Klaus Holetschek

told

the

Augsburger Allgemeine

(Tuesday edition).

In the case of vaccinations * with the vaccines from Biontech / Pfizer * and Moderna *, the interval is now six weeks, in the case of Astrazeneca * twelve weeks.

In an interview with

Merkur.de

last week,

SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach also

said with a view to the vaccination intervals: “On the one hand, it is essential to bring the first vaccinations forward and on the other hand to check whether we can further extend the vaccination interval between the first and second vaccinations for the Biontech vaccine * . "

Corona vaccinations in Bavaria: Reserve is significantly reduced

With a longer interval between vaccinations *, the Free State largely dispenses with postponing vaccination doses for the second vaccination.

“At the vaccination summit, among other things, we decided to lift the vaccine reserve for Astrazeneca and reduce it to 10,000 vaccine doses for Biontech,” said the CSU * politician of the

Augsburger Allgemeine

.

"This means that we have around 50,000 vaccine doses available at short notice that we can use if necessary."

However, Holetschek emphasized the importance of the second vaccination in Bavaria to the newspaper: "We will do everything we can to ensure that everyone gets their second vaccination on time."

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Holetschek on Astrazeneca vaccine: "Regaining lost trust"

With a view to the outstanding second vaccinations with the active ingredient from Astrazeneca, Bavaria's health minister was satisfied with the "quick action of the vaccination commission." In an interview with

Augsburger Allgemeine,

Holetschek emphasized

that it was important to him to clarify as quickly as possible, " in order to regain the lost trust of the citizens. ”Together with doctors, pharmacists, company doctors and associations, the Free State should now become faster and better at vaccination *, they say.

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