(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany begins to vaccinate the third dose of vaccine for high-risk groups
China News Agency, Berlin, August 17 (Reporter Peng Dawei) Bavaria, Germany announced on the 16th that it has begun to vaccinate the third dose of new crown vaccine as a booster for high-risk groups such as those over 80 years old.
This is the first federal state in Germany to take this step.
On the same day, the German Standing Committee on Vaccines (STIKO) formally recommended that young people over the age of 12 be vaccinated against the new crown.
The German disease control agency Robert Koch Institute announced that the number of new diagnoses and deaths were 2,126 and 4, respectively, and the cumulative number of diagnoses and deaths were 3,823,100 and 91,871 respectively.
Germany's official COVID-19 incidence index (the cumulative number of new diagnoses per 100,000 people in seven days), which is officially used by Germany to monitor the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic, continued to rebound on the same day and further rose to 36.2.
Up to now, Germany has received 97.6 million doses of vaccines, and a total of 47.6 million people have been fully vaccinated, accounting for 57.2% of the country's total population.
On the 2nd of this month, the German Federal Minister of Health and state health ministers reached a resolution after a meeting, agreeing to vaccinate the third dose of the new crown vaccine for people at high risk of new crown from September this year as a booster shot.
According to German media reports, Bavaria is the first federal state in Germany to start booster vaccination for high-risk groups, and other states are still completing relevant preparations.
Bavarian State Health Minister Holechek said on the same day that from now on, all elderly people over 80 years of age who have completed the first two doses of vaccinations, those in need of care, and those with immunodeficiency can go to the doctor. The third dose of vaccine at the local or local vaccination center.
Holecek said that the prerequisite for the third dose of vaccine is that six months have passed since the time for the second dose of vaccine.
He also suggested that the state’s vaccination centers and clinic doctors should first focus on those who live in nursing homes or nursing centers. These people are also the first group to be vaccinated in Germany at the beginning of this year.
The resolution of the Federal Ministry of Health and the State Ministry of Health on August 2 also included the approval of the country's 12-17-year-old teenagers to be vaccinated against the new crown. The German Standing Committee for Vaccines (STIKO), which is responsible for providing authoritative advice on various types of vaccinations in the country, said on the 16th that based on the latest data, especially the data of nearly 10 million adolescents in the United States after vaccination, the committee believes that the age can be An assessment of the risks that a group of people may face after being vaccinated with the new crown vaccine: "From the current known situation, the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the very rare risk of side effects." (Finish)