After the vaccination centers in Hanau and Gelnhausen have been closed, the Main-Kinzig district wants to continue the vaccination campaign to protect against the corona virus.

To this end, three new, smaller vaccination centers are to be set up in Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern, as announced by the vaccination manager for the Main-Kinzig district, the head of the district administration's health department, Wolfgang Lenz.

According to him, the location has already been found in Hanau, a former bank branch on Kanaltorplatz.

Operations will start there on Tuesday, October 5th.

The other two new vaccination centers in the district will open later, according to the administration, preparations are underway.

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According to Lenz, the three new vaccination centers will also be the basis for the mobile vaccination teams.

In the centers, vaccination campaigns will be prepared at meeting points and in public places.

The district will continue its vaccination campaign "Mein Pflaster", said Lenz: "We must continue to educate people in autumn and winter and make unconventional vaccination offers."

So far, vaccinations have been carried out in the Main-Kinzig district in the August-Schärttner-Halle in Hanau and in the district secondary school in Gelnhausen.

These two locations will be closed at the end of the month.

By then, the helpers will have administered around 300,000 vaccine doses, as reported by District Administrator Thorsten Stolz (SPD).

Across the country, 73.9 percent of adults are now fully vaccinated.

In the age group from 12 to 17 years it is 32.5 percent.

The Robert Koch Institute gives the vaccination quota for the total population at 63.3 percent.

Nevertheless, 136 people with Covid 19 disease currently have to be treated in an intensive care unit in Hessen.

108 of them are unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated, according to the Ministry of Social Affairs.

The total number of infections with the coronavirus, measured using the incidence in our table, continues to decline in Hesse.

The hospitalization rate also drops slightly to 1.78.

A week earlier it was 2.16.

The value describes how many people per 100,000 inhabitants were newly admitted to hospital nationwide in the past seven days due to corona disease.