The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has rejected responsibility for apparently reporting the corona vaccination rates too low for a long time.
"The RKI can only publish the vaccination data that has been transmitted to it accordingly," said the head of the Berlin authority, Lothar Wieler, on Wednesday.
Too low a registration of the number of vaccinations does not represent a mistake or neglect of the RKI, but goes back to failure to report some vaccinating agencies.
The figures published by the institute are therefore to be understood as “minimum vaccination rates”, the statement said.
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The RKI, which is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Health from Jens Spahn (CDU), was recently criticized because the official information on the corona vaccination rate is apparently too low.
The agency gave the proportion of fully vaccinated persons on Wednesday at 65.4 percent, based on the total population.
Because of “technical problems”, they did not receive all vaccination data from Saxony-Anhalt, it said.
The vaccination rate is therefore "reported a little too low".
Target rate of 85 percent
Since significantly more people recently stated in a survey by the institute that they had already been vaccinated against Covid-19, the RKI estimated the proportion of possible under-reporting in the official information. Assuming that all vaccine doses delivered to company and resident doctors have also been vaccinated, the under-recording of the vaccination rate according to the RKI was up to five percentage points. “In the adult age group (from 18 years of age) up to 84 percent could be vaccinated at least once and up to 80 percent completely at this point,” the institute calculated on Wednesday.
The target vaccination rate is a value of at least 85 percent for everyone between twelve and 59 years of age.
"Even taking into account the above estimates, these vaccination rates have still not been achieved," warned the authority.