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Vaccination in Jerusalem: Israel has already exceeded its goal of 150,000 vaccinations a day
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It's a small prick, but large parts of humanity are longing for it right now.
All over the world, states are struggling to vaccinate their populations against Sars-CoV-2 as quickly as possible.
Several vaccines are awaiting approval in the fight against the coronavirus.
So far, the corona vaccine from Mainz-based company Biontech and its US partner Pfizer has been approved in most states, and Great Britain has now been the first country in the world to also approve the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The British-Swedish pharmaceutical company developed the vaccine together with Oxford University.
According to initial studies, it is not quite as effective as the Biontech preparation, but it is significantly cheaper and easier to store.
How quickly - and how much - is vaccinated in which countries, however, varies greatly.
The United States has distributed the largest number of doses to date: 2.1 million units (as of December 28), followed by China (1 million doses) and the UK (800,000).
However, Israel has the highest vaccination rate.
Worldwide corona immunization in a per capita ratio
With 7.44 vaccine doses per 100 inhabitants, Israel is currently clearly leading the statistics.
The country has been vaccinated for almost three weeks, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being the first to receive the vaccine from Biontech.
Almost 650,000 vaccine doses have now been administered (as of December 29).
The number of people vaccinated in Israel is now higher than the number of Israelis who have been registered with a corona infection since the beginning of the pandemic.
Netanyahu has already declared his country the "Corona vaccination world champion".
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Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's prime minister was the first to be vaccinated in the country
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In second place in the per capita ratio is Bahrain with a rate of 3.29 vaccinations per 100 inhabitants.
The country had already approved the Biontech substance in an urgent approval three weeks ago and also approved a Chinese vaccine at the beginning of November.
By contrast, the UK, the country that first started vaccinating, has only the third highest vaccination rate with 1.18 administered doses per 100 inhabitants.
In Germany, more than 60,000 people have received the immunization in the first three days since the official start of the corona vaccination campaign.
In terms of the per capita ratio, the Federal Republic of Germany is currently in 7th place in an international comparison with a rate of 0.09 vaccine doses administered per 100 inhabitants.
In addition to the start of the vaccination, another fact plays a decisive role in the quota: the availability of the vaccine and the associated procurement policy.
While states like the USA and Israel buy their vaccines alone, the Federal Republic of Germany orders them together with the other states of the European Union (EU).
When it became known in the fall that the Biontech vaccine was very effective, the Israeli government reacted faster and ordered more doses per capita from Pfizer than the EU countries.
When it comes to procurement, you go "the European route," said Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU).
The EU orders jointly, the vaccines are then distributed among the member states according to the proportion of the population.
Most recently, according to a report, the Federal Republic of Germany decided in part to go it alone in procuring vaccines and ordered millions more vaccine doses.
Spahn optimistic about the purchase of vaccination doses
Israel, on the other hand, has agreed to deliver eight million vaccine doses from Biontech and Pfizer, according to Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Moderna is supposed to deliver six million.
According to "The Jerusalem Post" there are already 3.2 million cans from Biontech / Pfizer in the country.
In addition, Israel is a very small country that is not divided into federal states, says Professor Arnon Afek, Deputy Director of the Schiba Hospital near Tel Aviv, the German Press Agency.
"It is easier to vaccinate the population quickly than in a large country like Germany with more than 80 million inhabitants."
In Germany, Health Minister Spahn has meanwhile asked for understanding and patience in the event of vaccination difficulties.
At the same time, state politicians criticized the lack of clarity in the vaccine deliveries.
Spahn does not believe that Germany could get too little in the end.
According to the Minister of Health, 1.3 million doses should be available by the turn of the year.
Overall, Germany expects more than 130 million vaccine doses from the manufacturers Biontech / Pfizer and Moderna.
"That alone would be enough in the next year to make a vaccination offer to anyone who wants to be vaccinated," said Spahn on "Bild live".
In many other countries around the world, vaccinations have not yet started, they are still waiting for the vaccine or are negotiating with the manufacturers.
Also, not all countries disclose their figures.
A first shipment of the Chinese vaccine arrived in Turkey on Wednesday morning.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said that after a two-week test phase, they wanted to start vaccinating the Sinovac vaccine.
He left open how many cans arrived.
Turkey originally ordered 50 million doses of the Chinese vaccine, and it also wants to purchase additional doses from Biontech and Pfizer.
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