Booster vaccinations over 50 percent mark
Created: 2022-01-14Updated: 2022-01-14, 3:37 p.m
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Schleswig-Holstein has a high rate of booster vaccinations compared to the rest of Germany.
At the same time, the omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to spread.
The north also occupies a leading position in terms of incidence.
Kiel – If the number of infections continues to rise, the corona vaccination campaign in Schleswig-Holstein is progressing.
In the meantime, more than every second person has received a booster vaccination.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the rate was 50.7 percent on Friday (8 a.m.).
The rate in the age group 60 and older is 76.5 percent.
Among 18 to 59 year olds, 50.4 percent have received a booster vaccination and among 12 to 17 year olds it is 10.5 percent.
Schleswig-Holstein currently has the second highest value for booster vaccinations in Germany after Saarland with 54.8 percent.
Nationwide, the RKI gives a value of 45.9 percent.
According to the RKI, 77.0 percent of the population in the northernmost federal state are fully vaccinated.
78.6 percent received at least one vaccination.
The number of new corona infections reported within one day rose to a maximum in Schleswig-Holstein.
On Thursday it was 4317 - after 3739 on Wednesday and 3470 on Thursday a week ago, according to data from the state registration office in Kiel.
The seven-day incidence hit 664.3 on Thursday.
The day before, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants was 655.4 within seven days, and 458.0 on Thursday a week ago.
Compared to the other federal states, Schleswig-Holstein is still in third place behind Bremen and Berlin in terms of the seven-day incidence, according to the Robert Koch Institute.
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The hospitalization incidence, which is important for corona measures and indicates how many corona patients per 100,000 people came to clinics within a week, rose from 3.54 to 3.78.
There were 250 patients suffering from Covid-19 in the hospitals, 5 fewer than the day before.
57 patients were treated in intensive care units (-1) and 41 of them remained on ventilation.
Another person died in connection with a Sars-CoV-2 infection, bringing the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic to 1909.
After Lübeck was at the top for a long time, the Segeberg district now has the highest seven-day incidence in the country - it was 959.7.
In Lübeck it fell from 1009.5 to 876.7 within a day.
The Stormarn district had the lowest incidence in Schleswig-Holstein with 392.7.
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