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Solidarity and vaccination offer for Ukrainians
STORY: According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 2.3 million people have fled Ukraine. That was the status on Thursday. Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser visited a border crossing between Poland and Ukraine. Like her counterpart from France, she assured the Polish interior minister, who was also present, of her solidarity. “The three of us have already agreed today that we will support each other very practically logistically. We have agreed that there will be a very close exchange and a very close cooperation, especially between Germany and Poland on the question of how the refugees are coming now from here to other European countries and what can we work there together day by day?” These refugees were already in Germany on Thursday and therefore at least safe. They waited in front of the Ukrainian embassy in Berlin to be immunized once morest the corona virus. “We are here to be vaccinated and to get help,” says this woman from Odessa, who is staying with relatives. District Councilor Christoph Keller explained the campaign as follows: “Today’s campaign is a first day, so to speak, a first campaign to get in touch with the people who have fled, to, yes, get to know them, to offer them vaccinations, but also to Telling people, the district office is here, the health department is here and the contacts to the other offices are also here to build trust.” Starting next week, daily vaccination offers are planned in the health department. For many, this may be a helpful offer, even if most people’s thoughts are primarily with those left behind, like this young woman from Kyiv: “My parents are still there. My mother found a job there and is delivering groceries. The rest of the family is sitting at home waiting.”
More and more people are fleeing the war in Ukraine, and concrete vaccination campaigns are being launched in Berlin for those who have arrived.