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Munich (dpa / lby) - Bavaria wants to increase the vaccination speed with a vaccination alliance of doctors, pharmacies and local vaccination centers.

"In Bavaria from the beginning of April the resident doctors will supplement the Bavarian vaccination strategy as a second pillar," said Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) according to a statement on Friday.

"We expect that the federal vaccine deliveries will enable doctors' practices to offer their patients a vaccination offer by April 1st."

He added: "Together with the doctors, the local vaccination centers and the pharmacies as logistics partners for the practices, we are forming a vaccination alliance with which we want to increase the vaccination speed again."

The chronically ill, people with reduced mobility and immobile people in particular benefited from this.

According to Holetschek, the vaccination centers in the Free State are to be supplied with 350,000 doses of vaccine per week in April.

Deliveries beyond this should go to the practices.

“Based on the prognosis of the federal government, we assume that, for example, around 121,000 vaccine doses can be inoculated in doctors' offices in the week after Easter.

This sum should increase weekly in the course of April and May », says Holetschek.

In the next step, company doctors should be involved.

Bavaria's district council president Christian Bernreiter (CSU) told the "Passauer Neue Presse" (Friday): "Just through the participation of the doctor's office, there is no longer a single dose of vaccine available."

At the beginning of April, a practice will only have about five to six doses of vaccine available per day.

Week after week there will be more.

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The federal and state health ministers decided on Wednesday to start corona vaccinations in the doctor's offices as early as possible, but no later than the week of April 19.

In view of the changed vaccination strategy with broad involvement of doctors, the Bavarian vaccination centers will not be expanded any further.

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