The vaccination rates in Thuringia are low compared to other countries - even among young people.
Vaccination teams should make a low-threshold offer in schools, but so far they have hardly been used.
Do you need more central coordination?
Erfurt - Despite low vaccination rates among young people in Thuringia compared to other countries, schools have little interest in mobile vaccination teams. Only one state and two independent schools had requested such vaccination teams from the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, the Ministry of Education said at the request of the German Press Agency. These are two vocational schools and one community school. Since September 10, schools have been able to work towards a mobile team that can vaccinate children and young people over the age of twelve on site.
Of the 12 to 17-year-olds in the Free State, only 26.6 percent were fully vaccinated as of Wednesday, according to figures from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
This puts Thuringia in the bottom group in a Germany-wide comparison.
Nationwide, the rate is 39.1 percent.
Schleswig-Holstein recorded the highest vaccination rate in this age group with 52.5 percent of those who were completely vaccinated.
The seven-day incidence in Thuringia on Wednesday was 163 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week.
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According to the Ministry of Education, minors in the Free State are mainly vaccinated in vaccination centers, vaccination centers and at pediatricians.
These are the "main pillars", it said.
The mobile vaccination teams were always only intended as an "additional offer for school communities", where a corresponding demand would become apparent.
One of the possible causes of the schools' low interest in vaccination teams, a spokesman for the ministry, mentioned, among other things, the effort involved.
As a rule, students and parents have to agree beforehand how great the interest is.
Thuringian schools have been able to order vaccination teams for over a month in order to make vaccination as low a threshold as possible.
Numerous MPs from most parliamentary groups in the Thuringian state parliament again campaigned in parliament to be vaccinated.
The education policy spokesman for the Thuringian CDU parliamentary group called for more educational work in schools on the sidelines of the state parliament session in order to enable more low-threshold vaccination offers.
The SPD education politician Thomas Hartung spoke out in favor of more vaccination incentives and in favor of coordinating the deployment of vaccination teams centrally.
"Ideally, as a ministry, I would ask all parents in the schools and if enough are ready, I would send a vaccination team there," said Hartung.
In his opinion, it has been too complicated for schools so far.
“You have to do that centrally - at least at the school authority level.” Dpa
