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The marathon is organized by the doctor Ahmad-Mujtaba Mostakiem. With a team of fifteen, he vaccinates around the clock these days from a hotel, which is directly opposite the official vaccination location of Duisburg. However, it is closed. His makeshift practice in a hotel room is these days the only place in Duisburg where people can get an injection.
The doctor hopes that some prick doubters will be persuaded during the Christmas dinners to still be vaccinated. “And if that’s at 2 a.m., we’ll give them the chance!” says Mostakiem. Although most people come to the injection marathon to get a booster.
Prashanth Saravanapan is a radiologist by day, but is now part of the three-shift vaccination team. “We can say that more than a hundred people came by during the night. We think that’s great,” he told Tagesschau. According to him, there was a few among them who had themselves pricked for the first time.