The Ministry of the Interior has launched a nationwide overview of appointments that have become vacant at short notice in the 28 vaccination centers in Hesse.

Spontaneous people can now get a vaccination appointment with an mRNA vaccine, i.e. from BioNTech or Moderna, within a maximum of four days.

Monika Ganster

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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Since general practices and company doctors now also carry out the vaccinations, appointments for the first vaccination in the vaccination centers are increasingly unused.

And the replacement lists, which all centers have already created themselves, are apparently no longer sufficient to allocate the appointments that become free in a timely manner.

For this reason, a nationwide online service has now been created in order to be able to use the available vaccine as quickly as possible.

At the moment, an average of around 20 percent of the vaccination appointments booked are not attended to in Hessen.

With the new offer, the state is responding to the desire of many citizens to be vaccinated earlier.

In addition, the vaccination centers can be better utilized.

An additional offer

Citizens who have not yet been vaccinated and who are already registered online can now choose a shortcut to the vaccination appointment.

The Ministry of the Interior wanted to react even faster to ad hoc missed appointments in the Hessian vaccination centers.

“This is expressly an additional offer.

When making appointments, our priority is still to work through the waiting list quickly, ”said Minister of State Peter Beuth.

As before, vaccination is only possible in the respective vaccination center of the district or town in which the person wishing to vaccinate is domiciled.

If you only register online now, you can use this service directly.

Under the heading "Immediate vaccination appointment service", the number of vaccine doses that have become available is given for each of the 28 locations.

In a second step, the system automatically suggests an appointment that is a maximum of four days in the future.

The date for the second vaccination is also displayed directly.

Both appointments will be confirmed immediately and any previously assigned vaccination appointment will be automatically deleted.

This additional offer is only aimed at those citizens who have registered online for the vaccination.

Anyone who has registered by telephone cannot use the short-term option, as the timely receipt of the appointment confirmations by post would not be guaranteed.

Registration and free dates can be found at

www.impfterminservice.hessen.de.

The seven-day incidence rose slightly again in Hessen on Wednesday.

According to the Berlin Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the value of the newly infected per 100,000 inhabitants on seven consecutive days was 9.8.

On the two previous days, this value was 9.3 and 9.6 respectively.

Frankfurt continues to stand out among the cities and districts with the highest value of 21.4.

However, the incidence in the Main metropolis has stagnated for about 10 days.

While Frankfurt still had the nationwide record a few days ago, cities such as Neumünster, Trier, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt an der Oder now have even higher incidences.

Low values ​​in Northern Hesse

In Hesse, the Main-Taunus-Kreis has the second highest incidence value with 18.0, Darmstadt with 17.5 is in third place. The Waldeck-Frankenberg district is at the lower end of the scale, where the RKI reports an incidence of 1.9, which means that three people in the district have been found to be newly infected with the coronavirus. Within one day, 156 new corona infections were reported throughout Hesse.