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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - In order for Brandenburg to achieve its vaccination target of 70 percent by the end of the summer in the fight against the coronavirus, the resident doctors should also be involved.
This Wednesday (March 3) the first corona vaccinations will begin in doctors' offices - initially as a model project.
For regular vaccinations in practices and for home visits, the federal corona vaccination ordinance would have to be changed.
Health Minister Ursula Nonnemacher assumed on the RBB Inforadio that regular use in practices would be possible at the end of March or beginning of April, as Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn had already announced.
Initially, four practices in Brandenburg are to start with vaccinations as a model: in Bad Belzig (Potsdam-Mittelmark), Pritzwalk (Prignitz), Senftenberg (Oberspreewald-Lausitz) and Wittenberge (Prignitz).
According to the Ministry of Health and the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVBB), the offer will be expanded to around 50 practices in March.
It is planned that the doctors will assign the appointments to their patients themselves.
Brandenburg's goal is 3.5 million vaccinations by the end of the calendar year on September 21 - that is, two vaccinations for 1.75 million Brandenburgers.
According to Nonnemacher, this would require over 400,000 vaccinations per month from April and over half a million per month from May.
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