Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to order an additional corona vaccine with a view to autumn. Already not everything ends up in the arms of the Republic.
Tens of thousands in Germany are still infected with the corona virus every day, and dozens die as a result of an illness. The pandemic is not over yet. However, given the brutal war of aggression by Russia in Ukraine and the resulting challenges, the current infection process has moved to the back of the Federal Republic’s mind.
This could change soon. It is still unclear what the Corona autumn will bring, but to prepare for different scenarios. The virologist Christian Drosten is “somewhat concerned” about the development in Portugal, where not only the incidence but also the deaths are increasing. The traffic light coalition recently discussed the .
“We have to be prepared for all eventualities”, in mid-May. Despite a surplus, he wants to order an additional corona vaccine and thus also cover several possible virus variants more broadly. One lesson learned from the pandemic is never to run out of vaccine again, according to Lauterbach. Anyone who needs or wants it should also be able to be offered a fourth vaccination.
Coronavirus vaccine: the numbers since the pandemic began
How has the procurement and stocking of corona vaccines been in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic? The payment:
- In total, approx 290 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines delivered to Germanysaid a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) at the request of the star With.
- Since the beginning of the pandemic 180,195,183 vaccine doses have been vaccinated (As of June 7, 2022).
- According to the Federal Ministry of Health, the federal central warehouse is expected to have a total of around four million vaccine doses have reached their expiry date to have. These are exclusively mRNA vaccine doses. The vaccine doses, which have reached the expiry date according to the approval, “are disposed of professionally”, according to the BMG. A levy “in the sense of a vaccine donation” is “not permissible”.
- Currently are approximately 99 million vaccine doses (prime doses) in the central warehouse of the federal governmentaccording to the spokeswoman (as of June 7, 2022)
According to a spokeswoman, the BMG defines a “vaccination dose” as an individual dose for vaccinating a single person. A “prime dose” is the Covid 19 vaccine dose, which is used as part of the basic immunization.
The BMG keeps further daily updated figures in the publicly accessible, the data are provided by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). According to information from Friday, therefore…
- 64.6 million people (77.6 percent of the population) so far at least a vaccine dose receive.
- Thereof 63.1 million people (75.9 percent) already basic immunization.
- 49.7 million people (59.8 percent) have receive a booster vaccination.
- 5.2 million people (6.2 percent) have already received one second booster vaccination.
- Currently 18.6 million people are not vaccinated (22.4 percent). For four Millions of these people aged 0 to 4 years (4.8 percent) do not yet have an approved vaccine.
The Covid 19 vaccination campaign in Germany on Friday has been running since 532 daysaccording to “Vaccine Dashboard”. administered a total of 38,000 vaccine doses on June 8, 2022.
Source: Stern
