Berlin club turned into vaccination centre (with live DJ performance)
The thud of music from inside the venue, strict entry controls and the chance of waking up with a headache the morning after are all familiar, too.
The site is Arena club - which had been transformed into one of Berlin's five main vaccination centres over the last year, after it, like other similar venues, was forced shut to curb coronavirus transmission. In the Arena club, the scene is like a high-school disco with very limited dancing. Patients who have just had their vaccines sit spaced out on chairs under strobing lights, while one of the DJs - some of them well known figures of Berlin's underground and some who have volunteered in the vaccination centre itself - works away on a set of turntables.The idea to combine dance music and vaccines was hatched by Markus Nisch, the Arena vaccination centre manager for the German Red Cross.
A DJ performs at the Long Night of Vaccinations against Covid-19 at the Arena mass vaccination centre in Berlin. Just vaccinating older citizens won't be enough, Dilek Kalayci, Berlin's minister for health, says outside the Arena centre."We need to reach younger people now and to motivate them, convince them to get themselves vaccinated."
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