Health Minister Spahn speaks of an “expected but new development”: Thursday and Friday more second vaccinations than first vaccinations were inoculated in Germany.
Berlin (dpa) – Of the available corona vaccine quantities, more are currently used for second vaccinations than for the first syringe.
This was the case for the first time on Thursday and Friday, as Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) announced on Twitter. “An expected but new development,” he wrote there.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Saturday (as of 10.50 a.m.), 797,359 people were immunized the day before, 465,678 of them received their second dose. This means that the proportion of second vaccinations was over half. The most vaccine doses per day to date were given on May 12th: 1.4 million.
A total of 13.6 percent of the population (11.3 million) are now fully vaccinated. 39.9 percent (33.1 million) have so far received at least one of the peaks. Typically two are required for full protection, only one is enough for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The vaccination rate varies depending on the federal state. The Saarland has the highest rate of at least first vaccination with 43.9 percent, the lowest in Saxony with 34.6. While the Saarland is at the top when it comes to vaccination speed, even taking into account the second vaccinations, according to the RKI the campaign in Brandenburg is the slowest. The Saarland benefits, along with other federal states, from additional vaccine deliveries that it received because a particularly large number of mutations had occurred there.
The vaccination campaign in Germany started at the end of last year. First it was the turn of people over 80, residents of old people’s and nursing homes and medical staff. Among other things, chronically ill people with an increased risk of a serious and fatal course are given preference to vaccinate. From June 7th, the vaccination prioritization is to be lifted all over Germany, in some federal states a little earlier.
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