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Magdeburg (dpa / sa) - In Saxony-Anhalt, the corona vaccinations for people of the second priority level have started.

Astrazeneca vaccine was administered to this group in some vaccination centers, a health ministry spokeswoman said on Monday.

The background to this is the age restriction for the Astrazeneca vaccine in Germany: Due to a lack of data for older people, it may only be vaccinated for people up to 64 years of age.

However, since most of the people at the highest priority level are over 80, the second group, which includes people with certain disabilities and contact persons for pregnant women, has now been given a chance.

In addition, the health ministers of the federal states and Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) wanted to advise on Monday whether primary school teachers and educators can also be brought forward to the second vaccination group.

In the coming weeks, the country expects significantly higher vaccine deliveries than in February.

By the end of March, the country expects 222,300 vaccine doses from the manufacturers Biontech, Moderna and Astrazeneca, the Ministry of Health announced on request.

Since two doses of each vaccine are required per person to be vaccinated, theoretically 111 150 people can be vaccinated with the amount expected in March.

In February the country received cans for 65,000 people.

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From Astrazeneca, the country expects 84,000 cans by the end of next month.

That would be enough to vaccinate all primary school teachers and all kindergarten teachers in the country with it.

The Biontech vaccine is said to make up more than half of the March deliveries.

The country expects 128,700 doses of the German-American vaccine up to and including the twelfth calendar week.

From Moderna, however, only 9,600 doses are expected this week.

Both vaccines are approved for all age groups in Germany.

A total of around 125,000 people in the country had been vaccinated by Sunday, a good 45,000 of whom had already received their second vaccination.

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