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Hanover (dpa) - Resident doctors have vaccinated almost half a million people against Covid-19 in Lower Saxony. A total of 514,294 vaccination doses were injected by resident doctors from April 7 to May 3, 30,981 of which were second vaccinations, said Detlef Haffke, spokesman for the Lower Saxony Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVN), the German Press Agency. "We are assuming that 288,000 vaccine doses have been delivered this week and will also be vaccinated," said Haffke. In the second week of May, the same amount of vaccine should be delivered to the practices.
The vaccinations are currently offered by around 54 percent of general practitioners and around 8 percent of specialists, as the KVN announced (as of April 30). For a few weeks now, general practitioners' practices have also had a vaccine so that even more people can receive the protective injection. The majority still goes to the 50 vaccination centers in the country, some of which also send out mobile teams.
According to the spokesman, members of the third priority group are sometimes already considered in the practices.
Group three includes people over the age of 60, police officers, firefighters and retail staff.
An appointment via the central portal for the vaccination centers has so far been possible for people over 60, but not for everyone in group three.
The family doctors also have to adhere to the prioritization based on the coronavirus vaccination ordinance, but have a certain flexibility, as Haffke explained.
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In Lower Saxony, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute (as of May 4, 12 noon), 29.1 percent of the population had been vaccinated against Covid at least once by May 3 - around 2.3 million people.
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