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Berlin (dpa / bb) - In the vaccination center in Tegel, the vaccine from Biontech-Pfizer will be used from the week after Easter.
Dates for this can already be booked, as the President of the regional association of the German Red Cross (DRK), Mario Czaja, announced on Twitter on Thursday.
Vaccinations with it should be possible from Wednesday (April 7th).
Until then, the vaccine from the Swedish-British manufacturer Astrazeneca will continue to be used in Terminal C of the former Tegel Airport.
Afterwards it will only be used in the vaccination center in Hangar 4 at the former Tempelhof Airport.
Astrazeneca was initially only approved for people between the ages of 18 and 64 in Germany.
The vaccinations with it had also been temporarily suspended in Germany and several other countries in mid-March because several cases of thrombosis (blood clots) in the cerebral veins were reported in relation to the vaccination.
Astrazeneca is now being injected again.
The Astrazeneca preparation is safe from the point of view of the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
However, there is still a certain reluctance to use the vaccine, as Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller admitted on Thursday in the House of Representatives.
"It is by no means the case that we leave vaccine lying around," he emphasized at the same time.
Berlin has received 163,000 cans so far, said Müller.
54,000 went to hospitals, 34,000 to medical practices, and 47,000 were used in vaccination centers.
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Tweet from Mario Czaja