Corona vaccinations: company doctors will soon get in – syringes for company employees

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Corona vaccinations: company doctors will soon get in – syringes for company employees

Both Corona vaccinations in Germany should also from the week of June 7th at the latest Company doctors be included. According to the Federal Ministry of Health, at least 500,000 vaccine doses per week are planned for them, like that World on sunday reported.

Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) said that many were still waiting for vaccination appointments. “But in a few weeks we will probably be more vaccine have as appointment requests. ” Company doctors in Companies could then help to convince with low-threshold offers. This could win people over to vaccinate who “are not looking for the counter-argument, but the opportunity”.

The federal government had an involvement of Company doctors already announced in principle for June. Thanks to growing delivery quantities, the vaccination network is to become even larger in the area. For vaccinated and convalescent people in North Rhine-Westphalia, the first relaxation of the corona rules will apply from Monday (May 3).

Vaccinations against Corona: High vaccination rate in NRW

After starting with mobile vaccination teams and more than 400 regional Vaccination centers In the meantime, more than 60,000 medical practices are also included in the federal states. The Vaccinations have clearly picked up speed. In the meantime, 26.9 percent of German citizens have received at least one vaccination. According to the latest reported data as of last Friday, 7.7 percent have full vaccination protection with a second syringe. The corona numbers in Germany meanwhile confirm a clear trend.

In terms of the vaccination rate, North Rhine-Westphalia ranks high among the federal states. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the rate of those vaccinated for the first time on Friday (April 30) was 28.1 percent. Only in Saarland (29.8), Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (28.9) and Bremen (28.4) were more citizens at least once against Corona vaccinated.

Vaccinations against Corona: company doctors and medical practices should receive several million impdoses

According to a delivery forecast published by the Ministry of Health as of April 30, medical practices and Company doctors in June each week more than three million doses of the Vaccine of Biontech/Pfizer expected. After 3.4 million doses in the week from May 31, more than 3.6 million doses are to follow for three weeks and more than 3.7 million doses in the week of June 28. In May, the practices are to receive 1.6 million doses per week from Biontech and in the first two weeks of May an additional one million doses of the preparation Astrazeneca.

With more Vaccinations in practices and Companies also advances the future of Vaccination centers in view. The chairman of the health committee in the Bundestag, Erwin Rüddel (CDU), said the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung: “If the vaccination prioritization is lifted at the end of May, beginning of June, it would make sense to do that Vaccinate to leave to the doctors. They know their patients. ”They Vaccination centers According to current plans, they will initially continue to receive more than two million doses per week in May and June.

According to a model by the Central Institute for Health Insurance, more than half of those eligible for vaccination could have received at least one primary vaccination at the end of May if the delivery commitments are kept. In mid-June, three quarters could be vaccinated for the first time. With an assumed willingness to vaccinate of 80 percent, almost all those willing to be vaccinated would be reached. From then on, the vaccination centers in the federal states should only assign appointments for second vaccinations. (with dpa material)

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