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Berlin (dpa / bb) - Berlin is to receive 2400 doses of the Moderna vaccine recently approved in the European Union in the second calendar week.
The Senate Department for Health, Care and Equality announced on Thursday evening on Twitter.
In the fourth calendar week there should be 3600 vaccination doses and in the sixth calendar week 9600. 30,000 Moderna vaccination doses have been announced for the eighth calendar week.
According to the Senate Department, Berlin is expected to receive 29,250 doses of the vaccine from Biontech / Pfizer this Friday.
The agent from the US manufacturer Moderna was approved as the second corona vaccine in the EU on Wednesday.
It is considered to be just as effective, but a little less complicated to use than the product from Biontech / Pfizer, which was the first to receive EU approval on December 21st.
It doesn't have to be cooled at minus 70 degrees.
In the USA, the Moderna vaccine has been injected since shortly before Christmas, following an emergency approval.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign in the EU on December 27, there has been criticism in Germany, among others, that too little vaccine is available.
The situation should ease somewhat with the second approval.
However, vaccination of large sections of the population will still take months.
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