As of March 19, 31,508 people had been vaccinated with at least one dose in Kalmar County.

However, approximately one thousand of them are not registered in Kalmar County and are thus not included in the demographic and population data that the Public Health Agency uses for the allocation of vaccine doses to the regions.

According to the region, about half of the thousand people are health workers or municipal care workers who either work temporarily in the region or commute from another region.

The other half, between 500-600 people are people over the age of 65 who for various reasons stay here and receive the vaccine here.

- I can understand that people get frustrated because everyone wants their vaccine as soon as possible.

But if the relocations do not get bigger than this, within the framework of it being a national assignment, we will have to live with it, says Christer Jonsson (C), regional councilor in the Kalmar County Region.

Not compensated

According to the Patient Act, you have the right to apply for outpatient care freely throughout the country, and the Patient Act also governs vaccination against covid-19.

The Kalmar region does not receive any compensation in the form of more doses for vaccinating people from outside, but Christer Jonsson does not see that it is needed at the moment.

- Of the people we have vaccinated so far, 1.5 percent come from elsewhere in the country.

I do not think it is a big issue from that perspective, he says.

No signs of vaccine tourism

Region Kalmar is, just after Region Gotland, at the top in the proportion vaccinated in the population.

On Gotland, there have been alarms about signs of "vaccine tourism", ie people from outside are applying to Gotland to get the vaccine faster.

But no such trends have yet been seen in Kalmar County.

However, should there be a situation this summer where many summer tourists book vaccination times in the Kalmar Region, it could be a problem:

- Should we see such a development, it would be a bigger concern and then we have to deal with it in some other way, says Christer Jonsson.