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8,453,295 vaccine doses for corona vaccinations had been delivered to Germany by Friday, according to a list by the Federal Ministry of Health.

AstraZeneca had planned to deliver 650,400 doses of the vaccine on Saturday.

In addition, a batch of the vaccine from Moderna was still outstanding by the end of February, volume: 343,200 doses.

By the end of Sunday, the number of cans delivered should have increased to 9.45 million as planned.

And with the start of the new week it will continue.

Another 924,300 doses of the vaccine from Biontech have already been announced for Monday or Tuesday.

By the end of the third week of March, i.e. March 21, if everything goes according to plan, 14.68 million cans will have arrived in Germany.

Compared to what has been recorded so far, what is coming is almost a vaccine wave.

In the course of the vaccination campaign to date, an average of around one million doses per week have been delivered.

In the next three weeks it will be around 1.7 million, that is 70 percent more.

Source: WORLD infographic

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The only problem is: Germany is already not keeping up with the vaccination.

On Tuesday, more than three million cans were in stockpile, on Friday some of them were inoculated, but 2.5 million cans were still unused.

And it threatens to be significantly more now.

So far, the daily vaccination record is just under 170,000 doses.

Even if we hit this high every day in the coming weeks - even on weekends - we would only get 9.82 million vaccinations by March 21st.

Then 4.86 million cans would be lying around unused.

In order to limit the number of unused vaccination doses to just three million on March 21, the number of vaccinations, starting on the previous Saturday, would have to be 250,000 every day, i.e. almost 50 percent above the previous daily record.

And to reduce the number of unused vaccination doses to below two million by March 21, almost 300,000 vaccinations a day would have to be given.

Source: WORLD infographic

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Politics and bureaucracy will have to come up with a few short-term ideas if they want to prevent another embarrassment.

The combination of lockdown and five million unused vaccination doses is likely to be a politically rather explosive mixture.

And the pressure won't let up.

Not in the short term and probably not in the medium term either.

In the short term, the flood of vaccines will be even bigger after March 21: In the two weeks after that, i.e. until Easter, another 4.27 million doses are expected - which corresponds to a weekly average of 2.1 million doses and thus twice as much of the previous delivery volume.

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And in the medium term, deliveries from Johnson & Johnson should be added.

The US company's vaccine, waved through by the American FDA at the weekend, could soon also get the green light in the EU.

The size of the order by the European Union for corona vaccines that have already been approved would then swell from 1.465 to 1.865 billion doses.

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For Germany that would mean another dozen of millions of vaccines that also want to be brought into arms.

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