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Almost 30 million Corona vaccine doses have now been delivered to Germany - that is the good news that the Federal Ministry of Health published on Monday morning.

The not so good news came from a subordinate authority, the Robert Koch Institute: Germany cannot keep up with vaccination.

In the end, a bad weekend rounded off an already sluggish week.

The arithmetical backlog - delivered cans minus those reported as contaminated - continues to swell.

At around 4.5 million, it is back at a level that was last reached at Easter - that is, in the time before the general practitioners were included in the vaccination campaign.

Specifically, the Ministry of Health reports 29.90 million vaccine doses delivered at the end of the 16th calendar week that has just ended.

That is 4.41 million doses more than in the interim balance published last Monday.

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The number of vaccinations, on the other hand, was well below the number of new deliveries: It rose by 3.50 million to 25.45 million.

The backwater increases accordingly.

Last Monday it was an astonishing 3.55 million doses.

The backlog is currently at 4.46 million cans - this corresponds to an increase of 26 percent within a week.

There is simply not as much vaccination as it was in the middle of the month.

On nine of the past eleven days, the number of first and second vaccinations in Germany was below the previous week's level.

Knowledgeable observers such as Achim Truger from the economy have turned their backs in the past few days: The reduced vaccination rate was to be expected because the new deliveries had bypassed the doctor's offices.

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In fact, the resident doctors reported fewer corona vaccinations in the past week, namely 1.04 million after 1.14 million the week before.

The oppressive swelling of the backwater is of course unaffected.

And the backlog threatens to get even bigger.

Because this week the delivery of 4.63 million cans is announced.

So a total of 9.09 million doses are available this week.

That means: Even if the vaccination rate was doubled to 700,000 vaccinations per day, more than two million doses would still be lying around unused at the end of this week.

Rising vaccination numbers can be expected again this week, argue optimists such as Daniel Vorgrimler, the principle department head of the Federal Statistical Office.

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Because 2.05 million doses alone will be sent to resident doctors in the new week - who will presumably have no problems using the vaccine quickly.

But in order to get the vaccine up and running in Germany in a timely manner, the residents would have to get a much larger part of the deliveries.

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Because the bottleneck should continue to form the vaccination centers.

The backlog that has built up is already roughly twice as large as their weekly capacity.

And this week they should get another 2.57 million doses.

They don't need to put anything back, because around four million cans will be transferred over the next four weeks.