The proportion of those vaccinated against Covid-19 is approaching the two-thirds mark in Hesse, but this continues at a snail's pace.
According to the Robert Koch Institute, 63 percent of the people in this state have now received the full dose of the vaccine, although in the case of the Johnson & Johnson product only one injection is required.
For people over 60, the rate is just under 83 percent, for young people it is almost 31 percent.
Thorsten Winter
Business editor and internet coordinator in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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A good 78 percent have been vaccinated at least once, as the RKI statistics show.
In the case of young people, it is now 41 percent.
According to experts such as the Giessen infectiologist Susanne Herold, a vaccination rate of around 85 percent is necessary to get through autumn and winter.
Fewer intensive care beds occupied
The new guideline value for hospitalization incidence has slipped again after a temporary increase and is 1.88, as reported by the Ministry of Social Affairs.
The day before it was 2.08.
The limit is eight.
This incidence reflects the corona patients among 100,000 residents admitted to Hessian clinics within a week, not their total number.
147 intensive care beds after 155 the day before are occupied with Covid patients.
Here, 200 is the threshold value, which requires further protection rules that the country still has to formulate.
Meanwhile, the incidence, i.e. the new infections among 100,000 inhabitants recorded within seven days, has fallen further, from 68.6 to 66.2.
However, the federal average is 62.5.
Offenbach has by far the highest value in Hesse with 137.5, only seven large cities and regions in all of Germany have a higher incidence.
The Hersfeld-Rotenberg district is best with just under 20, ahead of the Vogelsberg with 24.6.
Frankfurt has a good 93.