With the corona vaccinations, at least every second inhabitant is now fully vaccinated in all 16 federal states.
Saxony was the last country to reach the 50 percent mark with 50.1 percent, according to data from the Federal Ministry of Health on Wednesday.
Four states are already above the 60 percent mark: Bremen with 68.3 percent fully vaccinated residents, Saarland with 62.5 percent, Schleswig-Holstein with 61.4 percent and North Rhine-Westphalia with 60.3 percent.
Nationwide, 57.8 percent of the population - 48.1 million people - are fully vaccinated.
52.8 million people or 63.5 percent of the population have now received at least one first vaccination.
The number of first vaccinations is increasing again, as can be seen from the data from the Robert Koch Institute.
Accordingly, a good 92,000 people received an initial vaccination on Tuesday, and around 75,000 on Tuesdays of the two previous weeks.
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn once again called on people who had not been vaccinated to participate.
"Every single vaccination brings us all more security and normality," wrote the CDU politician on Twitter.
He pointed out that on Tuesday 22,500 children and adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age were vaccinated for the first time - this is more than 20 percent of all first vaccinations that day.
The Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) on Monday now also generally spoke out in favor of corona vaccinations for all children from the age of 12.
Incidence at 40.8
The number of new corona infections within one day has increased.
The health authorities reported 8,324 new infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day - and thus over 4,400 more than the day before (3912).
This is evident from the figures from Wednesday morning, which reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 4:09 a.m.
A week ago, the value for Germany was 4996 infections.
Most recently, on May 21, the value was over 8,000 new infections within 24 hours.
In addition, the seven-day incidence rose further and above the 40 mark. According to the RKI, it was 40.8 - the previous day the value was 37.4, and a week ago it was 25.1.
The incidence has so far been the basis for many corona restrictions in the pandemic, for example as part of the federal emergency brake that expired at the end of June.
In the future, other values such as hospital admissions are to be taken more into account.
According to the new information, 22 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.
A week ago there were 14 deaths.
The RKI has counted 3,835,375 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not detected.
The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at 3,687,600.
The number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 91,921.
Nationwide classroom teaching in North Rhine-Westphalia
For around 2.5 million students in North Rhine-Westphalia, lessons will start again on Wednesday.
Despite the increasing number of new corona infections, there will be face-to-face classes across the country.
For the 166,000 first graders, several rules for protection against the coronavirus also apply from the day they start school.
School staff, parents and students hope for the greatest possible normality in the school year 2021/22.
Masks are required in the building and in the classroom.
Two tests per week are required.
What has changed, however, is that demonstrably vaccinated and convalescent people are excluded from the tests.
Also new are more flexible quarantine rules: If a single student tests positive, the whole class no longer has to be in isolation.
All secondary schools will be able to offer vaccinations for older years of upper secondary level and for school staff from Wednesday onwards.
Now that the STIKO commission is also advising adolescents over the age of 12 to immunize, it is planned that vaccination centers will also make offers for this group.
Appointments can also be made in schools.