"Vaccination is particularly important this year": The Söder government is campaigning for influenza protection

Created: 07/08/2022 07:19

By: Katarina Amtmann

Bavaria orders additional doses of flu vaccine for the fall.

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Bavaria orders 100,000 more vaccine doses to prepare for the flu season.

In autumn one must expect a “complex infection process”.

Munich – In order to prepare for the coming flu season, Bavaria is getting 100,000 additional doses of vaccine.

According to Bavarian Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) on Sunday in Munich, experts assumed that a corona wave and an influenza wave could coincide in autumn and winter.

"We have to reckon with a complex infection process."

Bavaria is getting 100,000 additional flu vaccine doses for the fall

According to the ministry, the Bavarian pharmacies should distribute the additional vaccine to doctors in the Free State as soon as it becomes apparent that regular vaccine orders will be delayed - but no earlier than mid-October.

Bavaria's Minister of Health emphasized that the flu vaccination can be given at the same doctor's visit as a booster vaccination against Corona.

The chronically ill, pregnant women and those over 60 should be vaccinated against the flu.

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However, Bavaria recommends everyone to be vaccinated against influenza.

"The more people get vaccinated against flu, the better - because vaccination is particularly important this year," said Holetschek.

You should seek advice on this from your doctor.

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The CSU politician had only criticized the planned Corona Infection Protection Act this week.

It is like "so often" with a federal law, "there is a law and it is not thought through to the end," Holetschek complained on Thursday (August 4) in the ARD "Morgenmagazin".

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