SecondNo study Corona vaccination In all 16 federal states, at least every resident is now vaccinated. According to data from the Federal Ministry of Health on Wednesday, Saxony was the last country to reach the 50% mark, at 50.1%. Four states have exceeded 60%: Bremen has a fully vaccinated rate of 68.3%, Saarland’s 62.5%, Schleswig-Holstein’s 61.4%, and North Rhine-Westphalia’s 60.3%. Nationwide, 57.8% of the population (48.1 million people) received a comprehensive vaccine.
Now 52.8 million people or 63.5% of the population have received at least one first vaccination. It can be seen from the data of the Robert Koch Institute that the number of first vaccinations has increased again. As a result, 92,000 people received the initial vaccination on Tuesday, and about 75,000 people received the vaccination on Tuesdays in the first two weeks.
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn once again called on those who have not been vaccinated to participate. “Every vaccination will bring us more safety and normalcy,” CDU politicians wrote on Twitter. He pointed out that on Tuesday, 22,500 children and adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 were vaccinated for the first time-which accounted for more than 20% of all first vaccinations that day.
On Monday, the Standing Committee on Vaccination (Stiko) now also generally agreed to vaccinate all children over 12 years old with the new crown vaccine.
Incidence rate is 40.8
Within a day, the number of new crown infections increased.Health authorities report Robert Koch Institute (RKI) There were 8324 new infections in one day—so 4400 more than the previous day (3912). This is based on data from Wednesday morning, which reflects the state of the RKI dashboard at 4:09 in the morning. A week ago, the number of infected people in Germany was 4,996. Recently, on May 21, this value exceeded 8,000 new infections in 24 hours.
In addition, the 7-day morbidity rate rose further and exceeded the 40 mark. According to the RKI, it was 40.8-37.4 the day before and 25.1 a week ago.Morbidity has become the basis for many people in a pandemic Corona-Restrictions, for example as part of the Federal Emergency Braking, which expires at the end of June. In the future, more consideration will be given to other values such as hospital admission.
According to new information, Germany recorded 22 deaths within 24 hours. 14 people died a week ago. RKI is calculated from the beginning Pandemic Sars-CoV-2 infection was detected in 3,835,375 people. Since many infections have not been detected, the actual total may be much higher.
RKI stated that the number of people who have recovered is 3,687,600. The number of deaths due to or confirmed infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 91,921.
National classroom teaching in North Rhine-Westphalia
For the approximately 2.5 million students in North Rhine-Westphalia, the course will restart on Wednesday.Despite rising Covid-19 infection Face-to-face teaching will be conducted nationwide. For the 166,000 first-year students, from the day they start school, several rules to prevent the coronavirus will also apply. School staff, parents, and students hope that the 2021/22 school year will return to normal as much as possible.
Mask requirements Stay in the building and classroom. It needs to be tested twice a week. What has changed, however, is that people who are clearly vaccinated and recovered are excluded from testing. There are also new and more flexible isolation rules: if a single student tests positive, the entire class no longer needs to be isolated.
Starting from Wednesday, all middle schools can provide vaccinations for high school seniors and faculty and staff.After commission Stico It is now also recommended that young people over the age of 12 be immunized, and the Plan Vaccination Center will also provide preferential treatment for this group. You can also make an appointment at school.
