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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - The statutory health insurance physicians in Brandenburg are demanding that the corona vaccination also be possible at the family doctor.
"A vaccination directly in the doctor's office means a significant relief for each individual," says a paper from the Brandenburg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVBB), which the "Ärzte Zeitung" reported on Saturday and which is also available to the German Press Agency.
"Elderly and sick people in particular are spared the need to go to a vaccination center through a vaccination in the doctor's office."
Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) should make this possible politically.
In the eleven vaccination centers in Brandenburg, people over 80 as well as the staff of care facilities, hospitals and medical practices are currently receiving corona protection.
Due to delivery delays, no new appointments can currently be made.
On Wednesday, Brandenburg will start vaccinating the third preparation - namely Astrazeneca.
According to a bill by the statutory health insurance physicians, so many vaccine doses could already be available in March that the vaccination centers would be overloaded.
"By April at the latest, you have to switch to vaccination in the practices if you want to make a vaccination offer to everyone eligible for vaccination," said KVBB boss Peter Noack of the "Ärzte Zeitung".
But if you are over 70 years old, for example, or have a severe chronic lung or kidney disease, you need a medical certificate for a vaccination according to the Corona vaccination ordinance from Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU).
According to the KVBB, this is what you get at the doctor's offices.
That is why the statutory health insurance physicians propose a model project with, for example, 50 practices for vaccination.
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, GPs have also been vaccinating on a test basis since January.
The family doctor quality circle Potsdam had already requested in January that vaccination should be possible in family doctor's practices.
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Almost 55,000 Brandenburgers have the necessary second protection around seven weeks after the start of the corona vaccinations, as the Ministry of Health announced.
The first vaccination was given to around 82,000 people.
In terms of the vaccination quota - the proportion of vaccinated citizens in the population - Brandenburg is 3.2 percent of the national average for first vaccinations.
When it comes to a second vaccination, the country ranks 2.2 percent well above the average, as figures from the Robert Koch Institute show.
The value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in one week continues to decrease in Brandenburg: This 7-day incidence was around 73 on Saturday, around 77 on Friday and around 92 a week ago.
Primary schools in Brandenburg will reopen on February 22nd with alternating lessons between school and home, the cabinet decided on Friday.
The outdoor areas of zoos and animal parks open this Monday, hairdressers on March 1st.
Otherwise, the hard lockdown will apply until at least March 7th.
There should be more openings if the 7-day incidence does not exceed 35 for several days.
Counties and urban districts can order a ban on alcohol on public streets and squares from Monday.
The Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court had previously overturned a nationwide ban on alcohol in public spaces.
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Report "Ärzte Zeitung" on the claim of the statutory health insurance physicians
Coronavirus vaccination regulation
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Corona infection numbers Brandenburg
Robert Koch Institute about corona vaccination numbers
Federal Ministry of Health on the vaccination sequence