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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - Despite the delivery problems of the corona vaccine from Astrazeneca, all vaccination appointments booked online are to take place in Brandenburg - the longer-term consequences are still open.
All appointments for the week from March 15 are secured with a vaccine, for the week after there is still no release for appointment bookings, said the spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Gabriel Hesse, on Saturday.
"All Astrazeneca appointments booked online take place."
The dates are only activated for a limited period of time.
The Federal Ministry of Health informed the country at short notice that it would receive significantly less vaccine from Astrazeneca in the next two weeks.
"That's a shock."
Thuringia had stopped the allocation of vaccination appointments.
Health Minister Ursula Nonnemacher (Greens) apologized for the bumpy start of the corona vaccinations at the beginning of the year.
"One could hardly have gotten off to a worse start," she told the newspaper "Der Prignitzer" and the "Potsdamer Neuesten Nachrichten" (Saturday).
The hotline was launched on January 4th and collapsed when 200,000 people called.
"I am sincerely sorry that so many old people dialed their sore fingers on the phone for days, from morning to evening."
Now all over 80-year-olds would gradually receive a letter with a special number, there would be online bookings and the municipalities would be more involved.
Brandenburg was long behind the proportion of corona first vaccinations in the population compared to other countries - on Saturday the country was in penultimate place before North Rhine-Westphalia, which comes just behind.
That came out from figures from the Robert Koch Institute on Saturday.
According to the Ministry of Health on Sunday, around 181,000 Brandenburgers have received a first vaccination since the end of December, and around 80,000 the necessary second vaccination.
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SPD Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke had criticized the vaccination strategy of the Ministry several times when Brandenburg was behind.
The government wants to speed up vaccinations.
The number of vaccination doses is expected to rise from around 65,000 to more than 80,000 in the week from March 15th - that was the planning ahead of Astrazeneca's new delivery problems.
The vaccination centers are now also open on Saturdays.
The consulting firm Kienbaum managed the vaccinations for the Ministry and the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in January and February.
Nonnemacher defended the mission, which according to the ministry cost around 468,000 euros net, against criticism.
"External support from the public administration is an appropriate measure in such a Herculean task," she said.
The left-wing parliamentary group in the state parliament has requested inspection of the files.
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Corona vaccinations in Germany
Interview Nonnemacher in the "Potsdamer Neuesten Nachrichten"