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The new weekly corona vaccination balance is here, published on the vaccination dashboard of the Federal Ministry of Health.

But, oh shock: According to this, not a single dose of vaccine was delivered to Germany in the past week.

And now, of all times, when the vaccinations in the general practitioners' practices should start and the vaccination campaign should really get going.

But now the total amount of cans delivered up to and including Sunday is still given as 15,872,775 - exactly as many as for the end of the week before last.

Of the 15,872,775 cans, 90.6 percent have already been inoculated.

1,076,400 doses of the Biontech vaccine had already been announced for Monday / Tuesday last week.

For the past calendar week 13, 650,400 Moderna cans and 1,744,800 AstraZeneca cans were also due for delivery.

This makes a total of 3,471,600 cans, the whereabouts of which are unclear.

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There is no explanation for this on the vaccination dashboard of the Federal Ministry of Health, the ministry itself could not initially be reached at WELT's request.

It would be a rather big coincidence, but of course it is possible that all three manufacturers failed to keep their delivery promises at the same time.

Alternatively, it is also possible that the deliveries have been received but not registered.

In this case, there is no need for bad intent.

There is no objective reason to abolish daily publication

Of course, the lack of booking for Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) and colleagues has a pleasant side effect: The often criticized vaccination balance in Germany suddenly looks much less bleak.

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If you include the deliveries from the previous week, there would not have been 15,872,775 vaccine doses in Germany, but 19,344,375.

Then 90.6 percent of the cans would not have been inoculated, but only 74.3 percent.

The backlog would then not be 1.49 million cans, but 4.96 million.

That would be a record.

Of course, one could argue that it doesn't matter if, for example, a delivery made in the afternoon of Maundy Thursday does not appear in the statistics until the Tuesday after Easter.

The only problem is: it will not appear in the statistics on Tuesday, and neither will it on Wednesday and Thursday.

Because the Ministry of Health has only just stopped showing the details of vaccine deliveries on a daily basis.

Instead, the eviction on the vaccination dashboard will now only take place once a week, on Mondays - this was announced by Jens Spahn's house shortly before Easter.

A factual reason why a daily publication should suddenly no longer be possible is not discernible.

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For those responsible in the federal and state governments, however, who have to listen to criticism for the hesitant vaccination progress, this change in itself is a convenience.

Because now nobody has to be calculated every day anew how many vaccines that have been delivered are lying around unused in refrigerated shelves - the critics simply lack the necessary figures.

If the deliveries are only booked with a delay, then the problem of the huge vaccination backlog will largely vanish into thin air.

Not in reality, of course.

But in statistics.

Spahn holds out the prospect of freedom for those who have been vaccinated

Health Minister Jens Spahn announces more freedom for vaccinated people.

"Anyone who has been fully vaccinated can in future be treated like someone who has tested negative," said Spahn.

Source: WELT / Gerrit Seebald