From 12 years
The GGD is steadily pushing through. 10.4 million people have now been vaccinated and the 21,000 people who previously refused AstraZeneca have made an appointment this weekend. According to André Rouvoet, chairman of the GGD-GHOR, which administers the majority of the injections in the Netherlands, it is likely that we will be able to end the vaccination campaign in September. “We are not shocked if the minister says that we can then finish.”
The discussion whether young people from the age of twelve should also receive the corona vaccine is now being held. In Germany they have already started vaccinating twelve-year-olds today. Rouvoet: “My expectation is that that decision will also be made in the Netherlands”. And if that age group also has to be pricked by the GGD, according to the former minister and leader of the Christian Union, that “doesn’t have to take extra” and all those young people can also have been pricked in September.
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Rouvoet is relieved about the fall in the infection figures, but “we are not sending the employees of the source and contact research, the test streets and the vaccination home yet. We are looking forward to the third and fourth quarters. The testing will be the first.” that the GGD will be phased out.” It is not yet clear about the preservation of the pricking streets. “Will there be a third booster jab? Or should we have an annual jab?” asks the chairman of the GGD-GHOR.
“We don’t have so many bulk stocks yet that people can choose which vaccine they get,” says André Rouvoet. “We are still getting fewer deliveries than we have the capacity to prick.” The former deputy prime minister and former minister of Youth and Family and Education, Culture and Science believes that people have the choice to receive the Janssen vaccine, if they want to.
It is not very likely that there will be a freedom of choice about which vaccine to inject into the arm. Anyone over the age of 18 is expected to have their first shot in the coming weeks. The second shot will have to be done with the same vaccine. Then it is already before you decide whether you get Pfizer or Moderna.
Yellow booklet
As of today, the GGD will also put stamps in the ‘yellow booklet’ if they have received a vaccination. “We do this mainly because people want it,” says Rouvoet. “The minister and the GGDs have already indicated in recent weeks that this stamp has no added value. You cannot travel with it. We are waiting for the European digital certificates.”
When you cross the border later, you will need such a European certificate. “It is an extra service of the GGD that we put that stamp”, says Rouvoet, “Add the card that you receive with your vaccination in your yellow booklet. The yellow booklet itself is of no use.”
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