Et is a day of casual, almost everyday sentences that are suddenly quoted nationwide. They come from very old women this Sunday. One of them is Gertrud Haase. She is 101 years old and resident of the Agaplesion Bethanien Sophienhaus nursing home in the Steglitz district of Berlin. “I didn’t even notice the prick. It’s great, ”she says after being one of the first Berlin women to be vaccinated at a quarter to nine. It is very good that they are now vaccinated against Covid-19. “That’s a big advantage for all of us here,” Haase is quoted as saying. All of us – in this case ninety out of 97 residents of the home who want to have their first injection on Sunday and Monday. Together with Gertrud Haase, two other women are vaccinated. They too have passed their hundredth birthday.
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But Sunday is also a day of weighty, often pathetic sentences. They should do justice to the importance of the vaccination campaign, a large-scale logistical and medical achievement that has never been seen in the history of Germany and Europe. It is “a great day, a moment that we will all remember,” says Berlin’s Senator for Health Dilek Kalayci (SPD), who is present at the first vaccinations in the nursing home in Steglitz. The vaccine from the German company Biontech and its American partner Pfizer is “a great stroke of luck in this terrible pandemic”.
Proud of vaccine
The fact that there will be a vaccine ten months after its outbreak is not a matter of course. Many politicians, especially the prime ministers and health ministers of the federal states, made similar statements on Sunday. There is talk of the “day of hope” or of the “great ray of hope”. They usually do it in nursing homes or old people’s homes where the first vaccinations take place. Jens Spahn, the health minister of the CDU, says: “This day rightly gives hope to many people.” Row are. The vaccine, “Made in Germany”, makes you proud and confident to find a way out of the crisis.
The frozen vaccine had arrived in Berlin on Saturday, 9750 doses; the number varies depending on the population size of the countries. In the early morning, mobile vaccination teams, consisting of Bundeswehr soldiers and doctors, picked up the substance from the camps and drove to the old people’s and nursing homes, whose 29,000 residents are to be the first to be vaccinated in the capital. A team is supposed to carry out fifty vaccinations every day, by the beginning of February the residents in the nursing homes should be vaccinated if they have also received the necessary second vaccination.
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