Up until recently, more than 800,000 doses a day were inoculated in this country, now there are only 710,000.
Experts and politicians are therefore calling for vaccinations in the pedestrian zone - and rewards.
Berlin - According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the rate of vaccination in Germany has recently decreased somewhat.
In the past week up to and including Sunday, an average of 710,100 doses per day were administered, according to the current RKI situation report.
In the previous week there were 800,500 cans per day.
In the week before, there was an average of more than 820,000 cans per day.
Of the vaccines delivered up to and including Sunday, 93 percent of the doses had been inoculated by Biontech / Pfizer (Comirnaty), 91 percent by Moderna, 78 percent by Astrazeneca and 56 percent by Johnson & Johnson.
So far, more than 57 percent of people in Germany have received a first dose of vaccine, around 40 percent are fully vaccinated.
Demand for "more creative vaccination offers"
While the vaccination rate is slowing down, the proportion of the delta variant in new infections is increasing rapidly - experts and specialist politicians are therefore worried. More and more are now calling for “more creative vaccination offers”, as the health policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, Sabine Dittmar, put it in “Welt”. Citizens should also be able to get vaccinated in pedestrian zones, housing estates and at events.
The Marburger Bund doctors' union sees it similarly: “The local authorities need a little more creativity,” said chairwoman Susanne Johna of the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post”. “We also have to speak to people directly and not wait until they come to the vaccination center or the family doctor. The lower the threshold, the better. The decisive factor is that we now also reach all those who up to now - for whatever reasons - still hesitate or want to be convinced. "
Saar Prime Minister Tobias Hans spoke out in favor of additional incentives.
"One could think of a raffle in which, for example, a bicycle, a foreign language course or another nice prize is given out among those who are vaccinated," said the CDU politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
Mobile vaccination teams and special campaigns are particularly necessary in socially disadvantaged areas.
Many undiscovered corona cases
The EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides called in the "Handelsblatt" (Düsseldorf) to accelerate the vaccination campaigns.
The EU will achieve its goal of having enough vaccines for 70 percent of adults by the end of July.
But because virus variants have "increased the transferability", you need "more than 70 percent to be safe".
According to the latest RKI management report, the delta variant now also dominates in Germany with a share of 59 percent. However, only some of the positive corona samples are examined for variants. In addition, there is the risk of under-reporting the cases: According to a study by the Mainz University Medical Center, more than 40 percent of all infected people know nothing about their infection. dpa
