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Corona: Second poorest EU country depends on Germany for vaccinations - different strategy chosen

2021-01-30T17:50:08.104Z


Germany is making slow progress with the corona vaccinations - in contrast to Romania, which is economically much weaker. The Covid-19 vaccination strategy is sometimes significantly different there.


Germany is making slow progress with the corona vaccinations - in contrast to Romania, which is economically much weaker.

The Covid-19 vaccination strategy is sometimes significantly different there.

  • Coronavirus pandemic in Germany

    :

    The

    vaccinations against Corona

    are making slow progress.

  • Romania

    ,

    on the other hand, has made significantly greater progress

    with

    vaccination against Covid-19

    - as the second poorest EU country.

  • Bucharest is

    pursuing a partly different strategy than

    Berlin.

Munich / Bucharest - January 1st, 2007 is a historically significant date for

Romania

.

Because: The former Eastern Bloc state was accepted into the

European Union (EU)

as the 26th member state

.

There were great hopes for the economically weak country of 20 million people.

Since then, they have only partially been fulfilled.

Coronavirus pandemic: Romania was the second poorest EU member state before the corona crisis

Expressed in numbers: According to the online portal

finanzen.net

,

Romania was

the second poorest member state

shortly before the

Corona crisis

, with a gross domestic product (

GDP

) of 59 percent of the EU average.

And then came the insidious

coronavirus

.

Lo and behold, in addressing the

pandemic

achieved

Romania

currently more progress than, say, the much richer (and larger)

Germany

.

Specifically: The Romanians are

making

much better progress

with the

vaccinations against Corona

than the Federal Republic.

This is shown by the continuously updated vaccination graphic from

ZDF

based on sources from the

Robert Koch Institute (RKI)

and

Our World in Data (OWID).

Corona pandemic

Residents

Vaccinations in a week

Vaccinations per 1000 inhabitants

Romania

approximately 20.1 million

261,000

31.7

Germany

approximately 83.1 million

654,000

26.6

Source: zdf.de, as of January 29, 5:30 p.m.

In other words: As of January 29,

just under 3.2 percent of the population

in

Romania

had received

at least one first

vaccination against Covid-19

.

In

Germany

this number was 2.7 percent at the same time.

Vaccinations against Corona: Romania is making faster progress than Germany

In the week before, a total of 261,000 vaccinations were registered in Romania

, whereas

in

Germany

, which is around four times larger with around 83 million inhabitants, 654,000 were registered.

Relatively speaking,

things went

faster

in the significantly poorer

Romania

.

The government's vaccination strategy differs in part from that of the federal government in Berlin.

Because: In a first stage, medical staff were vaccinated.

In a second stage, according to

Siebenbürger Zeitung

, “employees from systemically relevant areas, senior citizens and the chronically ill have been vaccinated since January 15.

This list has recently been expanded to include the homeless, the disabled, the bedridden and their carers, those with autoimmune diseases and some institutions. "

Coronavirus vaccinations: Romania is partly pursuing a different strategy than Germany

In

Germany

, on the other hand,

vaccinations

are first given in

old people's homes

, and the over-80 risk group is also first in line.

This meets with a lot of understanding, but also with isolated criticism that the vaccination takes longer because of the age and / or the need for care of the vaccinated.

The

vaccinations against the coronavirus

- they remain a polarizing topic.

(pm)

Source: merkur

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