According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), an average of less than 129,000 people per day were vaccinated against the coronavirus in Germany last week. The highest value of the week was reached on Thursday, October 7th, with over 207,000 vaccinations. Last Sunday there were only around 15,000 injections. The German vaccination campaign in the fight against the pandemic last recorded such low values in February of this year. On June 9th, the most vaccinations in one day were reported to the RKI with almost 1.43 million vaccine doses administered.
Bremen tops the list of federal states with the most first vaccinations. Almost 80 percent of the total population have been given a vaccine against the coronavirus at least once. Saarland ranks second with around 75 percent, followed by North Rhine-Westphalia with around 73 percent. Brandenburg (62.1 percent), Thuringia (61.1 percent) and Saxony (58.2 percent) have the fewest first vaccinations.
The vaccination campaign has now been running for 290 days.
According to the RKI, 54.27 million people in Germany were fully vaccinated during that time.
That corresponds to 65.3 percent of the total population.
According to this, 56.99 million people or 68.5 percent of people in Germany have received at least one vaccination.
According to model calculations, at least 85 percent of the total population must be fully vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus.
A representative survey by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) showed that by mid-August, more than 87.5 percent of adults in Germany had been vaccinated at least once.
According to the survey, the value is now said to be over 90 percent.
In the report on the survey, however, the RKI points out that it was probably distorted by “overestimation”. Other calculations of the vaccination quota would be ten to twelve percentage points less for the same period. However, these values should be understood as a minimum vaccination quota. Combining the data, the RKI currently estimates the rate of first vaccinations among adults to be around 84 percent. The rate of fully vaccinated adults should therefore amount to around 80 percent.
Recently there had been uncertainties about the exact vaccination rate in Germany.
The reason for this is, among other things, the lack of reports about vaccinations that have been administered.
Currently, only around half of all company doctors in Germany transmit their vaccination data to the RKI.
Many general practitioners' practices also do not pass on information about vaccinations that have been administered.
The health ministers of the states were dissatisfied: "We need clarity and truth in the question of the data," said the chairman of the health ministers' conference, Klaus Holetschek (CSU), after consulting with his country colleagues on Monday.