Second round of vaccinations has started

The vaccines are mainly administered in senior or care facilities as well as in Covid stations in hospitals. “Grosso modo you can say that around 60 to 80 percent of residents and 50 to 70 percent of employees are currently interested in a vaccination,” said Heinz Stieb, the head of the pandemic board in the city’s retirement homes, to Vienna today “.

After completing the second round, Vienna plans to use it for a wider group of people from January 12th. Certain professional groups, such as paramedics, should be given a chance. Elderly Viennese who do not live in any care facility should also be vaccinated.

Vienna is planning a registration platform for vaccinations

As a result, all city residents will gradually be given the opportunity to be vaccinated. For this purpose there will be a separate reservation platform from January 18th. Whoever registers there is recorded in the system. As soon as there is clarity about the further procedure, the reserved people will receive suggested dates.

Around 2,000 servings of the vaccine have already been administered in Vienna. As in other federal states, the first people were vaccinated on December 27th. From January 18, there will be a separate reservation platform in Vienna for people who want to be vaccinated. As soon as the further vaccination plan has been determined, the persons concerned will receive suggested dates.

63,000 vaccine doses per week

Austria currently receives 63,000 vaccine doses per calendar week to protect against infection with the coronavirus. By the end of this week, a total of around 126,000 doses of vaccine will have arrived. 8,360 cans had been delivered by Tuesday. The Ministry of Health announced these figures at noon on Tuesday at the APA request. According to Katharina Reich, Section Head at the Ministry of Health, over 6,700 doses have been vaccinated so far.

Vienna received 2,800 of the 8,360 cans. 2,690 are in Lower Austria, 890 in Salzburg, 525 in Vorarlberg and 485 in Tyrol. Upper Austria got 460, Carinthia 300, Burgenland 170 and Styria 40.

Official start of vaccination brought forward

After criticism of the coronavirus vaccinations, which are only starting slowly, the official vaccination start target for January 12th should be brought forward. As the ministries told the APA, over 21,000 doses are to be vaccinated this week.

Another 43,000 had been registered by next Tuesday. With around 6,800 people vaccinated so far, the target by Tuesday of next week is to vaccinate almost 71,000 people against the coronavirus. And the 60,000 vaccine doses that will arrive in the coming calendar week should also be vaccinated quickly, it said.

Recently there has been criticism from several sides of the delayed vaccination start in Austria. Above all, it was criticized that there are more vaccination doses in Austria than are vaccinated. Chief Medical Officer Reich justified the procedure on Tuesday with the “logistical challenge” and emphasized that they were “right on schedule”.

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