Vaccination center instead of a beer tent!
The city of Munich wants to advance the vaccination campaign and is now opening a new vaccination center - on the Theresienwiese of all places.
The Oktoberfest usually takes place here, which this year fell victim to the pandemic for the second time.
Munich has stalled a little when it comes to vaccinations, and not much has been going on for weeks. Now new momentum should boost the numbers. From Monday, October 18, the city will be offering a vaccination center in the heart of the city for the first time - in the premises of the Wiesn-Wache, right next to the test tent. Up to 500 vaccinations are to be administered here per day. The center will be open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Health Minister Beatrix Zurek (SPD) makes a direct appeal to the failed Oktoberfest.
"Please use the vaccination offers throughout the city and pay a visit to our new vaccination station on Theresienwiese.
If everyone gets vaccinated, we can hopefully celebrate another Oktoberfest next year.
Because with every vaccination you not only protect yourself, but also those around you. "
Previously, those willing to vaccinate had to make the way to the vaccination center at the fair in Riem in the far east of Munich.
A permanent vaccination facility in the center of the city should make vaccination easier for many citizens.
In the new vaccination center, people over the age of twelve who are resident in Germany can be vaccinated without an appointment.
The vaccine can be chosen freely.
Not only first vaccinations but also second vaccinations are possible, provided that the minimum distance to the first vaccination is maintained.
At Biontech this is three weeks, at Moderna four weeks.
In the case of an AstraZeneca cross-vaccination with Biontech, an interval of four weeks is recommended.
Booster vaccinations are also possible according to the recommendations of Stiko.
So far, according to the city, a total of 1,858,407 vaccinations have been received in Munich
carried out, 962,478 of which were first vaccinations).
The Munich vaccination quota, based on the total population of Munich, is 64.7% first and 60.2% second vaccinations ..