Health – Offenbach am Main – Offenbach sets up vaccination exchange for Astrazeneca vaccine – Health

Offenbach (dpa / lhe) – After several other Hessian municipalities, Offenbach is also introducing a corona vaccination exchange for the Astrazeneca vaccine. The city announced on Saturday that those eligible to vaccinate in the first two prioritization groups and those over 60 could register there. The vaccinators are given an appointment when others have missed theirs and doses become available at short notice. Other municipalities had also set up their own vaccination exchanges in addition to the central appointment allocation of the state, such as the Odenwaldkreis or the Kassel district.

The city of Offenbach explained that the vaccination centers had previously been instructed by the state to import new appointments into the Hesse-wide registration system at short notice as a replacement for missed appointments. “As a result, vaccines sometimes had to be kept longer than planned for the new additional appointments and the vaccinations did not progress quickly enough.”

In particular, planned vaccinations with Astrazeneca were repeatedly canceled because authorized persons did not show up at their appointment or refused to give the injection on site. Vaccination jumpers would have to make a binding stipulation when registering that they would also like to be vaccinated with this serum. Astrazeneca vaccine is currently only allowed to be injected into people over 60 years of age.

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