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Berlin (dpa / bb) - Health Senator Dilek Kalayci (SPD) has defended the decision not to vaccinate the staff in the nursing homes together with the residents.
"If we had enough vaccine, we would have vaccinated the nurses," said Kalayci on Monday in the health committee of the House of Representatives.
But there was a risk that the vaccine would not be enough for residents and staff of the nursing homes.
"We didn't want to take that risk," said Kalayci.
However, the senator emphasized that the nursing staff in the nursing homes was not vaccinated: "9,000 have already been vaccinated out of 23,000." That is almost 40 percent. “I'm satisfied, I don't know where it comes from, that the nurses don't want to be vaccinated, that the way is too long or something like that. But I hope that this rate will increase. " Among other things, there had been the demand that employees of the nursing homes should not have to first drive to one of the vaccination centers to be vaccinated.