Even before he took office, Chancellor Olaf Scholz set the goal of cracking the 30 million corona vaccinations by Christmas. How is Germany doing a week before Christmas Eve?
At a federal-state round at the end of November, Olaf Scholz (SPD) set the goal of vaccinating 30 million doses of corona vaccine in Germany by Christmas. In his first government statement, he now had to row back and proclaimed “that we will all get 30 million doses of vaccine in our upper arms by the end of the year in Germany”.
Time for an interim assessment: what has happened since the beginning of December?
This gives the following figures for December 1, 2021: 59.7 million people in Germany have been vaccinated against Corona once, 57.3 million have been vaccinated twice and 11.6 million have been vaccinated three times. On December 15, according to the dashboard (as of December 17, 10:30 a.m.), 60.7 million had already been vaccinated once, 58.2 million had been vaccinated twice and 22.9 million had been vaccinated three times.
More than 15 million corona vaccinations in December
Accordingly, 15.2 million doses of the corona vaccine were inoculated in the first half of December. If it stays at the current rate of 1.5 million doses per day (as of December 15), twelve million more vaccinations could take place including Christmas Eve. This means that 36.5 million Germans would have received a vaccination on New Year’s Eve in December – provided they were vaccinated over the holidays.
30 million corona vaccinations by Christmas alone will be difficult to achieve. But the target revised by Scholz by the end of the year is definitely possible. Much now depends on whether there is enough vaccine in stock and what the pace is like over the holidays.
In fact, the long stalled vaccination campaign is currently running at a record rate of more than six million vaccinations per week. More replenishment may be required to maintain a similar level. The head of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), Andreas Gassen, called the news of the lack of vaccines a “fatal signal”. The German Foundation for Patient Protection asked Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) to put the facts on the table immediately.
Sources: , DPA.
Source From: Stern
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