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Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - In Hesse, preparations are underway for the opening of the first six regional vaccination centers for patients on Tuesday (January 19).

First of all, people in the highest priority group should be protected against infection.

These are predominantly men and women over the age of 80. In old people's and nursing homes and in Covid intensive care units, vaccinations have been in place since the end of December.

On Friday, all of the initially 60,000 corona vaccination appointments in the centers were assigned.

Further dates are to be released when further vaccine deliveries arrive.

When that will be is still unclear.

Within one day, 1288 new coronavirus infections were registered in Hesse on Sunday.

The number of cases reported since the beginning of the pandemic rose to 158,544 (as of midnight), according to data from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin.

The number of deaths related to the virus increased by 29 to 3936.

Within seven days, 129.8 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants were reported nationwide.

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According to the RKI, 69 925 vaccinations had been carried out in Hesse as of Friday.

According to the information, these numbers are only recorded on weekdays.

They can also contain late registrations.

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Hessian regulation for corona vaccinations