Health – Frankfurt am Main – Hessen should get 100,000 more vaccine doses in the short term – health
Frankfurt (dpalhe) – Hessen is to receive 100,000 additional doses of vaccine from the Federal Ministry of Health in the short term. The spokesman for the ministry, Hanno Kautz, announced this in a “Bild” report on Wednesday. “Tomorrow the state of Hesse will pick up 100,000 vaccine doses from Moderna in the central warehouse of the federal government,” said Kautz accordingly. According to the report, the vaccine should arrive at vaccination centers and municipalities in the coming days.
In the last few days there had been resentment about the shortage of vaccines in Hesse. The family doctors in Hesse are “pissed off” at the politics in Berlin. The fact that not enough corona vaccine is arriving in the practices now is “a complete disaster,” said the chairman of the Hesse family doctors’ association, Armin Beck, of the German press agency on Wednesday. “This is an organizational meltdown.” The mood is tense, “you could also say shitty.”
The vaccine threatens to run out on Tuesday in the vaccination center of Hesse’s largest city, Frankfurt. The situation was “tense”, a spokeswoman for the health department said on Tuesday. The city had already restricted offers such as the vaccination express and canceled special vaccination campaigns on Monday evening. “All of Frankfurt is pissed off at Berlin,” said Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD). Instead of the 19,380 doses ordered, Hesse’s largest city only received around 6,000 doses of the Comirnaty vaccine from Biontech and a maximum of 4,000 doses of Spikevax from Moderna, it said. The Main-Kinzig district also reported the first problems in the vaccination centers.
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