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Corona vaccination precursors: 40 people storm vaccination centers and are rewarded - to protect employees

2021-04-27T20:28:33.681Z


Without a vaccination appointment, 40 people stormed a corona vaccination center on Wednesday - and each received a dose. Because of their aggressive demeanor.


Without a vaccination appointment, 40 people stormed a corona vaccination center on Wednesday - and each received a dose.

Because of their aggressive demeanor.

Schwelm - "Only those who are authorized to vaccinate and have booked an appointment * will also be vaccinated in the vaccination center or in the 'Drive in' extension".

That is the clear statement made by the district administration of the Ennepe-Ruhr district, which has been repeated over the past few days and weeks.

Nevertheless, there was now trouble at two vaccination stations in the district.

Corona vaccination without an appointment and priority: pre-pushers are successful

In the late Wednesday afternoon, according to the district, 40 citizens turned up at the Corona * vaccination center in Ennepetal as well as at the "Drive in" in Schwelm to be vaccinated - without an appointment and apparently also without a corresponding prioritization group to belong.

The district reported that the next day in a message.

The citizens stated that they had heard a radio report that vaccinations would be carried out for the rest of the day without an appointment and without taking the priority levels into account.

It is unclear whether there was a corresponding report.

What is clear, however, is that the information was simply wrong.

Corona vaccination precursors: Employees should be protected - late regrets on site

Nevertheless, the management of the crisis team decided to vaccinate the 40 people when asked by the vaccination center - probably also because of the aggressive behavior of those willing to be vaccinated. “In this way, the employees working on site should be protected. In the last few days in particular, we at the vaccination center had to deal more and more with aggressively acting citizens who were not entitled to vaccinations, ”says crisis team leader Michael Schäfer, explaining the decision. In addition, on that day, “due to missed appointments, there were enough vaccine doses left over to vaccinate these people in addition to those entitled to vaccination with an appointment and citizens who are on the reserve list”.

In retrospect, it was a well-intentioned but wrong decision, as Schäfer is quoted in a press release from the district: "The displeasure associated with this is understandable," said the head of the crisis team.

It has now been agreed that such a case "will not repeat itself regardless of the respective situation".

The corona vaccinations in Germany are in full swing.

According to Health Minister Jens Spahn, the previous prioritization could fall as early as June.

In addition, several federal states recently lifted these in relation to vaccinations with the Astrazeneca vaccine.

In some districts, people responded directly with "open vaccination days", for example in Bavaria.

(rjs) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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