Frankfurt "Impf-Express": At the next stop: syringe

Anyone who sees a tram painted with brightly colored pavement driving through Frankfurt from Monday onwards shouldn't be surprised.

It is the new vaccination express from Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt (VGF).

Milky windows and separated cabins inside the train make it clear that these are not normal trams, but a rolling vaccination center.

Hans Reinheimer from the German Red Cross (DRK) in Frankfurt assures us that there is no vaccination when the vehicle is at full speed.

The vaccination is only given during the stops at the stops.

The offer should help to reach people who do not have a permanent family doctor as a contact.

Anyone who would like to find out more about the vaccination can do so in the vaccination express.

A total of two special lifts are used.

You commute between Gravensteiner Platz and Ginnheim as well as between Zuckschwerdtstraße and Louisa train station.

"We come directly to the citizens," says Stefan Majer (The Greens), Head of Mobility and Health.

It was consciously ensured that the trams not only serve the inner-city districts, but also the less central parts of the city.

The managing director of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV), Knut Ringat, also emphasizes: “With the vaccination express we bring the saving prick to many people almost to their front door.

All you have to do is get in, drive off and get vaccinated. "

According to Ringat, up to 400 vaccine doses a day can be administered in the railways.

200 per lane.

“Let's set the record for vaccinations in trams,” says Michael Rüffer, Managing Director of VGF, who launched the project together with RMV, the DRK and the city of Frankfurt.

In two trams

BioNtech is used to vaccinate, explains Reinheimer.

The offer is valid for citizens from the age of twelve.

Young people who are not yet 16 years old must be accompanied by a parent.

For passengers aged 16 to 18, a copy of a parent's identity card and a declaration of consent are sufficient.

Six trained specialists wait for those willing to be vaccinated in each of the trams.

Those who do not yet have full corona vaccination protection can, for example, get on one of the two trams on their way to work from Monday and get immunized.

The use of the vaccination express is free of charge.

The special lifts are used from Sunday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.

The figures from the mobile vaccination teams show that the demand for vaccinations is still high.

So far they have administered around 100,000 doses at the individual stations in Frankfurt.

And the vaccination station in Hall 1.2 continues to record 500 to 900 vaccinations daily.

In addition, special vaccination campaigns with mobile vaccination teams take place in various locations in the city, for example on Sundays in the zoo or in the Fraport Arena.

All current special vaccination campaigns in the city area can also be found on the Internet at

under the keyword “Sonderimpfaktion”.