Vaccinated on New Year’s Eve: On the last day of the year have at least one more time 112,000 people received a vaccination against the coronavirus. So have a total of 71.2 percent the citizen about the Basic immunization, which typically require two doses. According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI / as of Saturday, 9:01 am), 38.7 percent of the population received a booster. 25.8 percent have not yet been vaccinated, i.e. every fourth citizen or 21.5 million people – including around four million children who are four years or younger and for whom no vaccine has yet been approved.
In addition, there are usually a number of late registrations. In addition, the RKI points out that the vaccination quotas are to be understood as minimum vaccination quotas, “since 100% coverage cannot be achieved by the reporting system”. The researchers assume that the actual vaccination rate up to five percentage points higher could be.
A total of 164.3 million vaccine doses have been delivered in Germany to date. 72 percent of this is accounted for by the Comirnaty vaccine, which is manufactured by the Mainz-based company Biontech in partnership with the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Comirnaty was approved for the first time for the countries of the European Union on December 21, 2020 – it was followed by the vaccines from Moderna (“Spikevax”), Astrazeneca (“Vaxzevria”), Janssen (better known under the name of the parent company Johnson & Johnson) and most recently on December 20, 2021 as the fourth vaccine “Nuvaxovid” from Novavax.