The state vaccination offers in Saxony ended months ago. But there are still numerous vaccines in depots. They are about to expire.
According to the Ministry of Health, around 9,800 vaccine doses were still stored in Saxony after the end of the state corona vaccination campaign. These are exclusively vaccines from Johnson & Johnson, as the ministry announced on request. However, their shelf life expires at the end of April at the latest. If the vaccines were not used by then, they would be professionally destroyed, it said.
The last state corona vaccination centers in Saxony had already stopped working at the end of last year. According to the Ministry of Health, medical practices were the main players in vaccination last year. People who currently want to be vaccinated against the virus should therefore contact the resident doctors.
RKI: Incidence in Saxony in the double-digit range
However, health insurance patients in Saxony currently have to finance themselves for a corona vaccination. The negotiations for a new regulation of the remuneration for corona vaccinations are underway, the Association of Substitute Health Insurance Funds (VDEK) announced on Wednesday. He is currently negotiating with eleven regions of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KV) after the vaccination ordinance of the Federal Ministry of Health expired last week.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), more than 7.6 million vaccinations have been administered in Saxony since the end of December 2020 (as of April 5). In addition, almost 66 percent of the people in Saxony were vaccinated at least once. On Friday, the RKI gave the seven-day incidence for Saxony with 12.6 reported new cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
