Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The President of the Westphalia-Lippe Medical Association, Hans-Albert Gehle, has urgently appealed to the population to be vaccinated against the corona virus.

"The course is dramatic," he said on Monday in Düsseldorf.

"Please all get vaccinated."

The corona virus can only be wiped out if 80 percent of the world's population is vaccinated.

In the North Rhine-Westphalian hospitals, the willingness to vaccinate is high, said Gehle.

In some clinics it is 90 percent - nowhere below 70 percent.