Germany’s medical practices are likely to receive the amount of corona vaccine they have ordered for the first time in the coming week.

That said the chairman of the board of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, of the German Press Agency in Berlin.

With around 2.3 million doses ordered nationwide, the practices would have requested fewer vaccines than were available.

The practices still need sufficient vaccine.

For next week, the medical practices nationwide ordered around two million BioNTech vaccine doses - although they could have ordered 2.2 million.

AstraZeneca ordered 325,000 cans, 1.1 million would have been ready.

"Business Insider" reported about it first.

"The rush in most medical practices continues to be high"

Gassen said that since the start of the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus, the contract doctors have regularly received significantly less vaccine than they needed.

Now the holidays made themselves felt in more and more federal states.

Many patients and doctors are on vacation.

More and more people are also vaccinated.

"Nevertheless, the rush in most medical practices is still high." Many practices are still in the process of working through the long waiting lists.

In view of the rapid spread of the particularly contagious Delta variant in Germany, the Standing Vaccination Commission (STIKO) adjusted its vaccination recommendations.

For example, people who have received a first dose of AstraZeneca will in future receive an mRNA vaccine like the one from BioNTech or Moderna as a second injection, regardless of age, the committee wrote on Thursday in a message with reference to a draft resolution.

The interval between the first and second dose should then be at least four weeks.

When it comes to the vaccination intervals for the mRNA vaccines, the STIKO now approves of shorter intervals than before.

The recommendation applies “subject to the feedback from the comment procedure that has yet to be opened”, announced the STIKO.

Federal states and specialist groups are involved in this.