InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/05/12
Only 20% of all asylum seekers living in accommodation centers in Germany want to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, the state government of Lower Saxony said. A publicity campaign is to address the lack of trust in vaccines.
In the northern German state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), one in five asylum seekers in initial reception facilities eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination said they are willing to get vaccinated.
That s according to the state government, whose spokesperson told the Protestant News Service
epd the situation in Germany s other 15 states is similar.
One reason for residents vaccine scepticism was not seeing any severe coronavirus cases in their surroundings, the spokesperson of the Lower Saxony s state reception authority (Landesaufnahmebehörde) said. A lack of general trust in the vaccines was another argument put forward.