In Germany, vaccination fatigue is becoming more and more common in the corona pandemic.

According to the latest weekly report from the Robert Koch Institute on Thursday evening, the proportion of fully immunized German citizens was around 61 percent compared to the previous week (59 percent).

From the end of July to the end of August, the vaccination rate only increased by around 10 percent.

Overall, at the end of midsummer, it does not come close to the values ​​that the RKI considered desirable in July.

According to the modeling designed at the time, at least 85 percent of 12 to 59 year olds and 90 percent of seniors aged 60 and over must be fully vaccinated so that a pronounced fourth wave with full intensive care units in autumn and winter is unlikely.

The fourth wave is picking up speed, especially due to infections among young adults, and is increasingly spreading to older age groups, writes the RKI.

Over 1000 people are being treated with a COVID-19 diagnosis in an intensive care unit with the data as of September 1, 2021.

Hospitalized cases are particularly common in the 35 to 59 age group.

For the Charité virologist Christian Drosten, the current vaccination rates are not sufficient.

“We cannot go into autumn with this quota,” he told Deutschlandfunk on Thursday.

In general, however, you can vaccinate yourself out of the pandemic.

In its report, the RKI also warns to accept the vaccination offers.

The institution also refers to the effective protection of all vaccines available in Germany.  

Regionally, the vaccination rates in Germany differ widely.

The range ranged at the beginning of September for fully vaccinated people from 52 percent in Saxony to 71 percent in Bremen, according to the report.

Seven-day incidence increases to 80.2

The seven-day incidence of new infections, which is determined daily, has meanwhile risen again.

According to the RKI on Friday morning, it was 80.2 - the previous day the value was 76.9, a week ago it was 70.3.

The health authorities in Germany reported 14,251 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.

A week ago, the value was 12,029 infections.

According to the new information, 45 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 14 deaths.

The RKI has counted 3,984,353 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 incidence of new infections 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 the number of hospital admissions are to be taken more into account.

The seven-day hospitalization incidence indicates how many admissions of Covid 19 patients in inpatient treatment per 100,000 inhabitants were reported in seven days.

On Thursday, the RKI gave the value in the management report as 1.74 (previous day 1.81).

A nationwide threshold, from when the situation can be viewed critically, is not provided for the incidence of hospitalization, among other things because of large regional differences.

The previous high was around 15.5 around Christmas time.

The seven-day incidence is calculated according to RKI information on the basis of the reporting date to the local health department.

According to this, an average of about ten days elapse between an infection and hospitalization, so the hospitalization incidence reflects the infection situation with a noticeable delay.

The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered on Wednesday morning at 3,757,600.

The number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 92,301.