Although significantly fewer people in Germany are vaccinated against Covid-19 than Chancellor Olaf Scholz had planned, the vaccinations are still sluggish. According to figures from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI/as of Thursday 10:16 a.m.), 334,000 people were vaccinated against the virus on Wednesday, almost three quarters of whom received a booster shot.
Overall, 75.9 percent of people (63.1 million) received a primary vaccination. The federal government’s goal of vaccinating 80 percent of the population at least once against Corona by the end of January was missed on Monday. Originally, the government wanted to reach this quota by January 7th.
74.2 percent (61.7 million) of the total population have received basic protection, which usually requires two syringes. With a additional booster dose, a total of 44.6 million people (53.6 percent) in Germany have been vaccinated.
Currently, 20.1 million people in Germany are still unvaccinated. That is 24.1 percent of the population. Among them are four million children under the age of four for whom no approved vaccine has yet been found.
The RKI has long pointed out that the numbers shown as minimum vaccination rates are to be understood. A hundred percent coverage by the reporting system cannot be achieved. The RKI assumes that the actual vaccination rate is up to five percentage points higher than that visible in the data.