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According to the Ministry of Health, 55,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia had been vaccinated against the coronavirus by the turn of the year.

Tens of thousands more vaccine doses are still in stock, said a spokesman on Thursday.

In the first days of January, it would vaccinate other residents and employees in care facilities.

In mid-January, the staff in particularly endangered hospital areas should also be vaccinated.

But this order creates debate.

The Essen doctor and blogger Carola Holzner called for a faster corona vaccination for the clinic staff - and received a lot of approval in tens of thousands of comments on social networks.

“Don't forget us!

We want the vaccination, and fast! ”Wrote the senior physician at the Essen University Hospital on Facebook.

"The old people's homes cannot relieve us of the patients, we treat them and we also have to stay healthy," emphasized the doctor, known in social networks as Doc Caro.

“My colleagues and I expose ourselves to the risk of infection every day.

We like to do that.

But we are also not protected from becoming infected and perhaps falling ill. "

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The spokesman for the Ministry of Health replied: "We have a limited number of vaccine doses and you have to start making a decision somewhere."

Therefore, the decision was made to vaccinate there first.

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As expected, NRW had received around 270,000 vaccination doses by the turn of the year.

Because every person has to be vaccinated against the corona virus twice, around half of the vaccine doses are withheld, the spokesman said.

With the remaining doses, the large-scale vaccination campaign could continue in the first days of January.

The country expects the next delivery of the corona vaccine from the manufacturer Biontech on January 8th.

Since December 27, residents and employees in nursing homes have been vaccinated against the coronavirus in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Ministry has not yet had any reliable figures on how willing residents and staff in care facilities are to be vaccinated.

Recently there had been reports from several regions of the country that the willingness to vaccinate was significantly lower than expected, especially among staff.

LKA warns of scammers with vaccinations

The State Criminal Police Office sees a completely different problem with vaccinations.

In Bonn, for example, phone fraudsters had called senior citizens several times and pretended to be employees of a manufacturing company in order to sell them a "Corona vaccine package".

In one case, a woman called pretended to be, but informed the police.

When a suspect wanted to collect the money, the officers met him.

According to the police, there have already been similar attempts at fraud in Dortmund.

The LKA emphasized that the corona vaccination structures in North Rhine-Westphalia currently consist exclusively of vaccination centers, mobile teams for care in old people's homes and independent vaccinations for hospital staff.

The free vaccinations would not be offered in any other way.

Citizens should be vigilant and alert the police if they are offered vaccine for a fee over the phone, by email or even at their doorstep.

Since the beginning of the Corona crisis, con artists have already invented a wide variety of scams to exploit the uncertainty of their victims due to the pandemic, said the LKA spokesman.