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German Medical Association President Klaus Reinhardt on Tuesday said the country was on the home stretch with its vaccine campaign.

While Germany has vaccinated only about 8% of its population with two doses of the vaccine, about 28% have had a first jab.

After a sluggish start to its vaccination program, Germany has picked up the pace with more than a million jabs administered in one day last week.

Speaking to German broadcaster ZDF, Reinhardt said what while the vaccination overage was “still far too low to give the all-clear,” it was “nevertheless showing effect.”

“We’ve had declining incidence figures for a week now,” said Reinhardt. “I’m sure that this trend will continue.”

While herd immunity is only achieved when about 70% of the population has antibodies, Reinhardt said that transmission drops as vaccinations rise.

The example of Israel, he said, showed that from the moment 20% percent of the population was vaccinated, “the incidence rate decreased rapidly and continuously, down to almost zero.”

Reinhardt said he believed it was “very appropriate” to say that Germany was on the “long home stretch” when it came to a return to normality, thanks to the vaccination campaign. “It should give people a bit of hope,” he added.

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-covid-vaccine-campaign-showing-effect/a-57426369

Germany administered a record of just under 1.1 million Covid-19 shots Wednesday, further accelerating efforts to control the pandemic in Europe’s biggest economy.

General practitioners administered a total of 730,000 doses, and vaccine centers another 360,000 shots, accounting for more than 1% of the population for the first time, Health Minister Jens Spahn said at a news conference in Berlin.

“That shows how much speed we’ve gained,” Spahn said. “It’s not enough yet to gain herd immunity in the population, but every shot offers protection.”

After a sluggish start, Germany is helping lead the charge in Europe’s quickening Covid vaccination campaign, with 25.9% of its residents now having received a single dose and 7.5% fully covered.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-29/germany-administered-record-1-1-million-covid-shots-on-wednesday

German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Thursday that he expected coronavirus vaccinations to be available for all those willing to be vaccinated in Germany by June at the latest.

He told Germany’s upper house of parliament that he assumes “that we can lift the prioritization in June.” He said he would be happy if it were possible even earlier.

Currently, half of people over 60 in Germany have already been vaccinated at least once, Spahn said, adding that the pace of vaccinations will pick up now, with the number of available vaccines and inclusion of distribution practices increasing. Currently, more than one in five in the population will have received a first vaccination, and by the end of May, that figure will be one in three.

According to the Federal Health Ministry, around 21.6% of the population had received a first dose by Thursday, while 5.7 million people, or 6.9% of Germany, had been fully vaccinated.

“A total of more than 23.6 million doses have been given so far, with 689,000 yesterday, ” Spahn wrote on Twitter.

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-could-start-offering-covid-vaccines-to-everyone-by-june/a-57287691

More than 15% of Germans have now received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for disease control revealed on Sunday.

The figure represents a more than 25% increase compared with a week earlier, and is the latest sign that a sluggish start to Germany’s vaccine rollout is over.

RKI data showed some 12.7 million people had received the vaccine, of which almost 5 million had received the required two shots.

Several studies indicate a single dose already gives some level of protection against the virus.

General practitioners in Germany joined the country’s rollout on Wednesday and now that more vaccines are available, an increase in the number of daily doses administered has climbed, peaking at more than 700,000 on Thursday.

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-15-of-germans-have-been-vaccinated-says-rki/a-57159763

The vaccination campaign in Germany is picking up speed. The Robert Koch Institute reports a new vaccination record for Wednesday. With 656,357 first and second vaccinations, the old best value is clearly exceeded.

With the involvement of general practitioners, the pace of corona vaccinations in Germany has increased significantly. On Wednesday, the Robert Koch Institute reported 656,357 first and second vaccinations within one day – this is by far the highest value since the start of the vaccination campaign in Germany.

More than 300,000 of these were general practitioners, almost 565,000 were primary vaccinations. This means that 13.9 percent of citizens in Germany have been vaccinated against Covid-19 at least once.

At the start of this week, around 35,000 medical practices in Germany received a total of 940,000 vaccine doses. So, on average, almost 27 cans went into each practice. “But by the end of April we will be able to triple this amount,” promised Health Minister Jens Spahn.

Then a total of three million vaccines should go to the practices every week. The basic rule is: 2.25 million vaccine doses per week are reserved for the vaccination centers. Anything beyond that goes to the doctors.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article229967689/Neuer-Rekord-RKI-meldet-erstmals-ueber-600-000-Impfungen-fuer-Deutschland.html