Pandemic Control
The number of corona vaccinations is falling: Germany misses the vaccination rate of 80 percent
A children’s vaccination campaign to contain the corona virus is taking place in the “Phaeno Wolfsburg Adventure Museum”.
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By the end of January, 80 percent of the people in Germany should have been vaccinated against Corona. That was the government’s plan. But now it is clear that he will fail.
Germany is clearly missing the federal government’s goal – a corona vaccination rate of 80 percent by the end of January. At least 73.9 percent of the population (61.4 million) have according to RKI information receive full basic protection. This usually requires two doses of vaccine. The RKI still counts people who have only received one dose of the Johnson & Johnson preparation, but this is currently being changed. In the future, people who have been vaccinated by Johnson & Johnson should only be considered fully vaccinated after a second vaccination dose – if possible with an mRNA vaccine such as that from Biontech/Pfizer or Moderna.
83.2 million people live loudly official number of inhabitants 2021 in Germany. Currently, 24.3 percent of the population (20.2 million people) are not vaccinated. There is currently no approved vaccine available for four million of these people aged 0 to 4 years. A vaccination rate of 80 percent would mean that 67.2 million people in Germany would be vaccinated against Corona.
The German corona vaccination rate will probably not reach 80 percent
Since the number of vaccinations in Germany even decreased by the end of the week, the federal government’s vaccination target will probably be missed. As can be seen from data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Saturday, at least 370,000 vaccine doses were administered on Friday – the day before there were 466,000. There were almost 582,000 vaccinations on Friday a week ago, and around 769,000 on the previous Friday. So there is little evidence that the missing 5.8 million people will receive a vaccine dose over the weekend and by Monday evening.
However, more than half of the population has already received a booster vaccination against the corona virus. At least 43.7 million people (52.6 percent) have now been boosted, the RKI said. This is important for effective protection against the particularly contagious virus variant Omicron.
RKI states minimum values for vaccination rates
The RKI dashboard points out that the vaccination rates are to be understood as minimum rates, “since 100 percent coverage by the reporting system cannot be achieved”. The Robert Koch Institute assumes that the actual vaccination rate is up to five percentage points higher.
Sources: DPA, RKI vaccination dashboard, extra.