(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) German mass vaccination is ready, 101-year-old woman receives "first shot"
China News Agency, Berlin, December 26 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The German Federal Government stated on the 26th that the country’s first batch of new crown vaccines had been distributed to all federal states on the same day, and the next day will be implemented through vaccination centers and mobile vaccination vehicles. Vaccination.
On the 26th, a 101-year-old woman, Edit Kwojzala, who lives in a nursing home in eastern Germany, was vaccinated and became the first person in Germany to complete the vaccination.
On the 21st of this month, the European Commission approved the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) new crown vaccine jointly developed by the German biotech company (BioNTech) and the US Pfizer (Pfizer).
Starting on the 27th, EU countries will uniformly launch mass vaccination.
The German Federal Government stated that the first group of people to be vaccinated against the new crown included elderly people over 80 years of age, nursing staff, and medical staff at high risk.
German Health Minister Spahn said that the upcoming new crown vaccination is the largest vaccination campaign in Germany's history, and Germany is ready for this.
He also reminded that starting vaccination does not mean that we have already defeated the virus. “We need to have a lot of patience until we finally overcome the pandemic.” The official goal is to “make all people who want to get the vaccination have it by mid-2021. Opportunity for vaccination".
On the 26th, 40 residents and 11 staff members in a nursing home in Hallerstadt, Saxony-Anhalt, Eastern Germany, became the first people in Germany to receive the new crown vaccine.
The 101-year-old Edit Kwojzala became the first of them.
The German health department reminds the public that they must continue to comply with the epidemic prevention requirements after vaccination, including wearing masks and maintaining interpersonal distance.
At present, the vaccination process announced by Germany is still relatively cumbersome.
Taking Berlin as an example, those who receive the official “vaccination invitation” need to log on to the website to make an appointment for the vaccination time, and then go to the vaccination center by themselves.
In order to solve the problem of inconvenient vaccination for the elderly and the high risk of cross-infection, Berlin has equipped 60 mobile vaccination vehicles, which will go to Berlin's nursing homes to provide door-to-door vaccination for 29,000 elderly residents in the city.
According to German "Times Online" data, as of 23:00 local time on the 26th, a total of 1,466,623 people have been diagnosed, 1,236,628 people have been cured, and 30,324 people have died in Germany.
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