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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - Rhineland-Palatinate starts this Sunday with the second corona vaccinations - and plans these in the future with an interval of 28 days (four weeks) instead of 21 days.

"According to the Corona Virus Vaccination Ordinance, the right to a second vaccination takes precedence over the right to the first vaccination," said the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health, Stefanie Schneider, on Friday at the German Press Agency in Mainz.

When planning vaccination appointments, it is important to take this into account and make sure that enough vaccine has been delivered.

According to the recommendations of the Standing Vaccination Commission at the RKI (Stiko), the second vaccination should be given before the 42nd day (i.e. a maximum of six weeks) after the first vaccination.

According to the manufacturer, the first vaccination of the preparation from Biontech / Pfizer provides a certain level of protection around twelve days after the first dose.

However, it is still unclear how long this will last without the second dose.

Bavaria had previously announced that it would change its procedure in order to make faster progress with the corona vaccination.

In the future, with the Biontech vaccine - with a certain reserve - the dose for the necessary second vaccination will no longer be set aside for each first vaccinated person.

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Rhineland-Palatinate has moved up to third place compared to the other federal states.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), 15.7 out of 1000 people had been vaccinated by Thursday.

The national average was 11.6.

"The planning of vaccinations is a complex interplay of various, constantly changing variables," said Schneider.

"We have to take into account the requirements and needs of the mobile teams, the hospitals and the vaccination centers, as well as the transport and shelf life conditions and the planned deliveries of the vaccines, as well as those that actually took place."

The dates for the vaccinations would be assigned on the basis of the currently known binding delivery quantities.

Corona Virus Vaccination Ordinance Section 5