The vaccination location at the NDSM wharf will close at the end of this month due to the Pleinvrees festival. People who have a prick appointment for that day have received a text message that the appointment cannot take place. According to the GGD, however, they can go to a different location at the same time.
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AT5
The site will be used for the Pleinvrees festival on 31 July. That was part of the lease that the GGD Amsterdam concluded with the owner of the site, a spokesperson explains. “If festivals were allowed to take place again, the vaccination location would close that day.” That appointment was incorporated into the national appointment system for the first vaccination appointment, but it went wrong with the second. “If you plan a first appointment, you immediately get a second one. It was automatically set on July 31.”
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“It should have been clearer that the appointment can continue, but at a different location.”
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Alternative
When that problem was identified, an alternative was found: the appointments continue at the same time, but at a different location. However, hundreds of people received a text message today informing them that the site is not available that day and that they could call for a new appointment. However, according to the spokesperson, the text is too unclear. “It is multi-interpretable and causes confusion. It should have been stated more clearly that the appointment can take place, but at a different location.”
Thanks to the text message, the telephone at the GGD is red-hot and people have to wait a long time before they can speak to someone. Some report that they had to wait at least two hours.
Several people contradict AT5/NH News surprised at the text message they received. They are surprised that a festival is given priority over vaccination. “That’s not possible, is it?” is the tenor of the reactions. There is also a lot of surprise on social media.
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Council questions
The closure of the vaccination location will have an end in the Stopera. The VVD and the Party for the Animals have already announced that they will ask questions about the closure during the council meeting next Wednesday.
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