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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - For the first time today, people in Hamburg are being vaccinated with the second dose of the corona vaccine from Biontech / Pfizer.
Exactly three weeks after the start of the corona vaccinations in the Hanseatic city, the around 445 residents of the Hospital zum Heiligen Geist nursing facility in Poppenbüttel are the first to take their turn, as the health authority announced.
On Monday, residents of the Finkenau facility in the Uhlenhorst district would then receive their second dose.
Further facilities are to follow.
Experts assumed that a first vaccination would only bring about 50 percent protection, said a spokesman for the authorities.
According to the manufacturer, the specified efficiency of over 90 percent is only achieved with the administration of the second dose.
On Friday it became known that a corona infection had been detected in two residents of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit who had already been vaccinated. However, the evidence was probably only a few hours after the vaccination, so that the infections may have occurred beforehand.