The telephones no longer stand still in the doctor's offices.
Again, significantly more people want to be vaccinated.
But appointments are hard to come by at short notice.
Berlin - Doctors' practices and vaccination centers cannot keep up: Corona vaccinations are currently so popular in Berlin that many doctors no longer have their phones idle.
Getting a vaccination appointment at short notice is difficult.
However, the Senate Department for Health holds out the prospect of improvement: capacities are to be expanded significantly soon.
Several new vaccination centers are planned, not least in the eastern part of Berlin, where there is no longer a vaccination center.
Doctors in private practice throughout Berlin feel that the number of people who want to be vaccinated has skyrocketed.
“The demand is very high.
We know of practices that fill their diaries until January, ”said the spokeswoman for the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Berlin, Dörthe Arnold, on Thursday of the German Press Agency.
There have been queues in front of many practices in the past few days.
"The main problem is that a lot of patients now want to get vaccinated very quickly, for a variety of understandable reasons," said Arnold.
“The phones don't stand still.” Short-term appointments for the coming days are not realistic.
The number of vaccinations in medical practices has recently increased significantly again.
"So far we have 173,000 booster vaccinations in the Berlin practices in November, in October it was just under 57,000," said Arnold.
"It can be assumed that with the booster vaccinations alone at the end of the month we quadrupled the amount from October."
There is also a clear upward trend in primary vaccinations: "In October there were 33,627 primary vaccinations and in November 47,623." By the end of the month, the KV believes that 50,000 to 55,000 primary vaccinations across Berlin are conceivable.
Health Secretary Martin Matz (SPD) admitted in an interview with RBB-Inforadio on Wednesday that supply and demand for vaccinations in Berlin diverged: "I know that the demand is growing faster than the supply at the moment." six Berlin vaccination centers, however, only two are open: on the exhibition grounds in Berlin-Charlottenburg and on the area of the former Tegel airport in the north-west of the city.
Therefore, more vaccination sites are now planned. In the Ring-Center shopping center on Frankfurter Allee, a new vaccination center is to go into operation on Friday morning, where up to 1000 daily vaccinations should be possible. It replaces an earlier, much smaller place that had around 400 vaccinations a day, a spokesman for the Senate Department for Health said on Thursday. The new vaccination station on the third floor of the shopping center will be open Monday to Saturday and also on Sundays (December 5th and 19th), as the health administration announced on Thursday.
On Monday, another vaccination center will start in the Freizeitforum Marzahn with a capacity of 600 daily vaccinations, and on Friday there will also be a vaccination center at the trotting track in Berlin-Karlshorst, where 1000 immunizations per day are possible.
All three vaccination sites are in the eastern part of Berlin.
The two vaccination centers that existed there had already been closed in the summer.
According to the health administration, the Spikevax vaccine from Moderna is used in the two corona vaccination centers and the vaccination centers, even when appointments for a vaccination with Cominaty from Biontech have already been booked.
On the other hand, Berliners under 30 and pregnant women can be vaccinated with Biontech, as recommended by the Standing Vaccination Commission.
According to the Senate's daily status report, there have been a total of 5,414,567 vaccinations in Berlin so far.
68.8 percent of people in Berlin are considered fully vaccinated, 71.2 percent have received a first vaccination.
The corona incidence in Berlin is still at a high level.
According to the data from the Robert Koch Institute, the value on Thursday was 344.8, the day before 348.6.
The number indicates how many people per 100,000 population have been proven to have been infected with the virus in the past seven days.
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