Lately, vaccinations seemed to have slowed down. But new RKI figures show that the rate is better than previously assumed. A reason for optimism for the head of the statutory health insurance physicians.
The chairman of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, expects corona restrictions to be relaxed soon after the official vaccination rate has been corrected by the Robert Koch Institute. “With a vaccination rate that is too low, you can no longer argue in favor of corona measures,” Gassen told the “Bild” newspaper. “Freedom Day is getting closer.”
According to a new survey by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the vaccination rate among adults in Germany is higher than previously assumed. In the evaluation of the new vaccination rate monitoring (Covimo), it was “to be assumed that in the adult population a proportion of at least once vaccinated persons of up to 84 percent and a proportion of fully vaccinated persons of up to 80 percent”. “It’s nice that the RKI is now delivering these positive figures,” said Gassen of “Bild”. “Nowhere in the world is there much more than 80 percent.”
Spahn: Germany can get through autumn well with 3G
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) also declared part of the corona rules to be dispensable on Thursday based on the new RKI survey. Germany can now get through autumn and winter just with the 3G rules (vaccinated, recovered or tested) for interiors and the protective masks in buses and trains.
The Green politician Dieter Janecek called it in the “Bild” “remarkable”, “that the government is suddenly changing its strategy so soon after the election”. “Because of the polarized debate in Germany, they obviously didn’t dare to do so before the election,” he added.
The virologist Klaus Stöhr speculated in the “Bild”: “Obviously one believed that one would get more votes in this way. Because the elderly are most affected by Corona – and they make up the largest group of voters.”
