Thousands of Germans sick with corona despite injections | Abroad

The RKI, the German counterpart of the Dutch RIVM, has so far registered 3806 cases of ‘vaccine breakthroughs’. People would then still have complaints due to a corona infection at least two weeks after they had been fully vaccinated. This is a fraction of the approximately 975,000 cases of illness reported in the same period.

In Germany, with a population of approximately 83 million, about 25 million people had been fully vaccinated on 4 July. However, the rate at which people are vaccinated continues to decline. Last week, there was an average of 710,000 injections per day. The week before, that average was more than 800,000, which was again a decrease compared to the previous period.

Concern

Meanwhile, concerns are growing about the spread of the highly contagious delta strain. In the week ending June 27, this accounted for 59 percent of the confirmed infections, almost doubling compared to a week earlier. The RKI suspects that two-thirds of new corona cases now involve infection with that mutant, which was first found in India.

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