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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - In the fight against the still high number of corona infections, the state and large cities are increasingly targeting the districts in which people on low incomes and in cramped living conditions live.
People in difficult social circumstances often lived in small apartments and worked where there was less protection against infection, said the State Ministry of Health in Stuttgart on Wednesday.
That is why it is important in socially disadvantaged areas to enable easy access to vaccination and to address and educate people, for example through other migrants or religious communities.
The state wants to expand the vaccination offers in the affected quarters and districts, as Health Minister Manne Lucha (Greens) announced on Wednesday. We must increasingly go to those people who are otherwise more difficult to reach, ”said the head of department after a conversation with representatives of associations and churches. In particular, mobile vaccination teams are in demand, but the planned vaccinations in companies and the increasing number of vaccinations by general practitioners are also important. "In direct contact, fears and reservations in people can be reduced through education," said Lucha.
With reference to studies, the State Health Office does not assume a direct connection between a person's immigration history and Covid-19.
"Observable differences do not seem to be migration-specific, but to be influenced much more by the socio-economic situations of those affected," says an assessment by the office.
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