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Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - Hessen is best prepared for the corona vaccinations of the population.

Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) emphasized this on Thursday in the state parliament in Wiesbaden.

"Our goal is to report full readiness for the largest vaccination campaign in the history of our country on December 15, 2020."

The 28 vaccination centers in the country will then be operated seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and will each be able to carry out around 1,000 vaccinations per day.

When the vaccine will actually be available is not yet clear, said the Interior Minister.

That will probably be the end of December or the beginning of next year.

First of all, older people and members of the health and care sector should be able to receive a vaccination against corona.

The order of the particularly prioritized groups will be based on the recommendations of the Standing Vaccination Commission by the federal government.

The vaccination will be free for all citizens, stressed Beuth.

The Minister of the Interior announced that there will be an online portal for registering for vaccinations and a hotline for making appointments.

The procedures in Hesse are embedded in a corresponding federal vaccination campaign.

The software and hardware required for this will be available in the vaccination centers.

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Beuth reported that the state had already made 170 million euros available to the municipalities for the costs of operating the vaccination centers for the first few months.

The delivery of the vaccines to the federal states is guaranteed and financed by the federal government.

The country will then supply the communal vaccination centers with the doses they need from specially protected central warehouses.

The CDU politician assured that the country was in close contact with the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the Medical Association on the voluntary assignment of doctors to carry out vaccinations.

There will be remuneration for the doctors who have to close their own practice for the vaccinations in the centers.

Since the doctors are on duty for the responsible municipalities in this work, the state also assumes liability for possible errors in this activity.