In comparison, the vaccination rate for people receiving assistance and treatment at home through nursing insurance is 68% - which also still leaves room for improvement. This stance is shared by COPAS, the umbrella organisation of care providers in Luxembourg. However, COPAS President Marc Fischbach argued that the figures regarding staff are "unreliable".
Fischbach pointed out that these figures do not include cross-border workers, who, "in order to avoid a vaccination with AstraZeneca, preferred to be vaccinated in their country of origin", according to the COPAS President.
Minister of Health Paulette Lenert tried to put these figures into context by explaining that there were many doubts about the new vaccine, that many women had fears about potential consequences for a possible pregnancy, especially at the beginning of the vaccination campaign. "More recently, nearly 1,000 members of the sector have registered for the catch-up vaccination," Lenert stated on Wednesday.
She explained that this low participation rate has already improved considerably over the past six weeks and continues to rise.
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Benoît Holzem, managing director of the Hëllef Doheem foundation, which provides home care and assistance, stated that while the health care sector is "very happy" to have finally received these figures, important details such as "age groups or professions" are still missing. He explains that this additional information is needed in order to better target the awareness campaign among staff members.
