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Hanover / Bremen (dpa / lni) - Lower Saxony's Minister of Health Daniela Behrens wants to adhere to the specified vaccination priority for the elderly, the sick and nursing staff.
“We are still in groups one and two, which include around 3.8 million Lower Saxony.
This includes especially older people, ”said the SPD politician in an interview with the Bremen newspaper“ Weser-Kurier ”on Saturday.
“I am very, very much against leaving this priority too early.
Otherwise we would no longer adequately protect those who particularly need our protection. "
At the same time, Lower Saxony is also expanding the vaccination options and wants to vaccinate people with 70,000 doses of Astrazeneca this weekend.
"That corresponds to our stocks, which we now want to bring quickly to the people so that we can slowly approach the next priority group," said Behrens.
She rejected criticism that Lower Saxony was too slow to vaccinate.
“Perhaps what sets us apart from other federal states is that we are not so volatile.
We don't change horses so quickly, that is the measures, ”said Behrens.
The biggest problem for vaccination centers such as doctors' offices is still the "management of deficiencies in the vaccine".
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According to the Robert Koch Institute on Saturday, Lower Saxony, with an initial vaccination rate of 22.4 percent of the population, was further below the national average of 22.8 percent.
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