• All individuals aged 60 and older
• All pregnant women starting in the second trimester; for those at increased health risk due to an underlying medical condition, starting in the first trimester
• Individuals at increased health risk due to an underlying medical condition (such as chronic respiratory diseases, heart or circulatory diseases, liver or kidney diseases, diabetes or other metabolic disorders, chronic neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis with infection-triggered relapses, congenital or acquired immunodeficiency, or HIV)
• residents of retirement or nursing homes,
• Individuals who, as a potential source of infection, may pose a risk to at-risk individuals (see above) living in the same household or under their care, as well as
• people who have frequent, regular, and direct contact in their private lives with, for example, pigs, poultry, wild birds (both free-ranging and captive), and seals.
  
  In addition, the following individuals should be vaccinated due to an increased occupational risk:

• People at increased risk (such as healthcare workers),
• people in facilities with heavy public traffic,
• people who may serve as a potential source of infection for at-risk individuals in their care, and
• People who, due to their work, have frequent, regular, and direct contact with, for example, pigs, poultry, wild birds (both free-ranging and captive), and seals, and who work in places such as livestock farms, zoos and wildlife parks, animal shelters or rescue centers, veterinary clinics, and slaughterhouses.

• all individuals aged 75 and older,
• people 6 months of age and older who are at increased risk of severe COVID-19 due to an underlying medical condition,
• Residents of long-term care facilities, as well as individuals at increased risk of severe disease in facilities providing integration assistance,
• Pregnant women at increased health risk due to an underlying medical condition or pregnancy-related complications (e.g., gestational diabetes, hypertension) starting in the second trimester,
• Staff in long-term care facilities who have direct contact with residents,
• Healthcare personnel with an increased occupational risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection (e.g., emergency departments, intensive care units, etc.),
• Healthcare personnel caring for high-risk patients (high-risk individuals include those with, for example, chronic respiratory diseases, heart or circulatory diseases, liver or kidney diseases, diabetes, or other metabolic disorders, chronic neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis
  with infection-triggered relapses, congenital or acquired immunodeficiency, or HIV), family members, and close contacts aged 6 months and older of individuals who are not expected to develop a protective immune response following COVID-19 vaccination

If you have any questions about the flu and COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, please contact the doctors at the Salzgitter Public Health Department, located at Paracelsusstraße 1-9 in Salzgitter-Bad. They can be reached by phone at 05341 / 839-62452 or by email at gesundheitstadt.salzgitterde.

For more information on flu and COVID-19 vaccinations, visit the Robert Koch Institute’s website on the flu at www.rki.de/DE/Topics/Infectious Diseases/Vaccinations/Vaccinations A-Z/Influenza/influenza-node.html (opens in a new tab) and on the COVID-19 vaccination campaign at www.rki.de/DE/Topics/Infectious Diseases/Vaccination/Vaccinations A-Z/COVID-19/COVID-19.html (opens in a new tab)