For the sixth consecutive day, the weekly incidence of new positives to SARS-CoV-2 fell in Germany, according to data released early this Sunday (19.09.2021) by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI, for its acronym in German), an entity in charge of monitoring the pandemic in the European country. The most recent data says that for every 100,000 inhabitants, 70.5 infections were registered.
The previous day that number had reached 72, while a week ago it rose to 80.2. In addition, in the past 24 hours there were 7,337 infections, a figure almost equivalent to the 7,345 reported on Sunday, September 12. Thus, official figures indicate that there have been 4,142,116 positives since March 2020, of which the RKI considers 3,888,900 recovered.
Likewise, there were 38 deaths attributable to causes related to COVID-19. A week ago the statistics recorded 8 deaths. With this, the total of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic in Germany reached 92,958. It is worth remembering that on weekends the figures are usually lower than the weekly average, due to the fact that fewer exams are reported.
Regional differences
Meanwhile, the incidence of hospitalization, that is, the total number of patients admitted to healthcare centers due to COVID-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, reached 1.89 on Friday, the last day for which figures are available. To make a comparison, at the worst moment of the pandemic, during the Christmas season of 2020, that rate reached 15.5.
According to RKI statistics, since the beginning of the pandemic, the population most affected is the age group between 35 and 59 years old, followed by people between 15 and 34, who together account for 70 percent of cases. Likewise, there is a record of 113,000 cases among children from 0 to 4 years old.
The highest incidence occurs in Bremen, which has 104.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days, followed by Baden-Württemberg, with 94.1. Better is the scenario in Mecklenburg-Antepomerania, which reports 31.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
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Coronavirus: vaccination in remote and unusual places
Climbing into the mountain towns
Whoever wants to vaccinate people in the mountainous regions of southeastern Turkey must be fit. Vaccination in mountain villages is particularly important, Dr. Zeynep Eralp said in an interview with DW: “People often live very closely together” and the virus can spread rapidly. Also, people don’t like to go to hospitals, “so we have to go to her.”
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Coronavirus: vaccination in remote and unusual places
Snow and cold vaccination
Very old people do not go alone to the vaccination center. In the Maira Valley, in the western Italian Alps, very close to the French border, doctors go from house to house to vaccinate people over 80 against the coronavirus. Along the way they have religious support.
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Coronavirus: vaccination in remote and unusual places
By plane to the Yukon River
With her shipment of coronavirus vaccines, this nurse travels to Eagle by plane. Fewer than 100 people live there at the foot of the Yukon River in Alaska, USA The indigenous population has preference in many vaccination programs, because they live far away and the next health center is far away.
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Coronavirus: vaccination in remote and unusual places
Not only vaccinate but also convince
Anselmo Tunubala washes his hands before vaccinating an old woman. Every day, this 49-year-old man walks through the mountains in southwestern Colombia to explain to people in the local language how important vaccination is. He is a member of the Misak, who live there. They are very skeptical of vaccination, because they have a lot of trust in traditional medicine and its religious leaders.
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Coronavirus: vaccination in remote and unusual places
Walking for hours to get vaccinated
These men and women walked up to four hours to get vaccinated in the remote city of Nueva Colonia, in central Mexico. They belong to the indigenous people of the Wixárika. Internationally they are better known by the name of Huichol.
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Coronavirus: vaccination in remote and unusual places
Vaccination in a boat
Olga Pimentel drew her boat alongside that of the vaccination team. The community of Nossa Senhora Livramento in Río Negro, in Brazil, can only be reached through the river. “Good! It hardly hurt,” said the 72-year-old with a laugh and shouted, “Viva SUS!”, Brazil’s public health system.
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Coronavirus: vaccination in remote and unusual places
Vaccinating without electricity
For a long time, right-wing populist president Jair Bolsonaro was not in favor of vaccination against the coronavirus in Brazil. Indigenous peoples and the Quilombolas, descendants of African slaves, were among the first to be vaccinated. Including Raimunda Nonata, 70. Since her community does not have access to the electricity grid, the vaccine was administered by candlelight.
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Coronavirus: vaccination in remote and unusual places
Doctor at home in Japan
Also in Japan, the doctor goes home to vaccinate. Although Japanese metropolises are among the largest cities in the world, the East Asian country also has small, isolated towns with only a few hundred inhabitants, such as Kitaaiki. Anyone who can’t make it to the next biggest city is happy with a doctor’s visit to their home.
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Coronavirus: vaccination in remote and unusual places
Very valuable vaccines in Indonesia
At the beginning of January, in Indonesia they also began to vaccinate. By boat, medical personnel traveled to remote islands. Vaccines in the fridge are so valuable that there were security personnel guarding the doses.
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Coronavirus: vaccination in remote and unusual places
Vaccination as a super-pet event
India is currently the country most affected by the pandemic. In mid-March, medical workers arrived in the village of Bahakajari, on the Brahmaputra River. These women wanted to register to be vaccinated. No mask, no safety distance. Hopefully this situation has not caused more infections.
