Only 4% are unvaccinated.
QUICK FACTS:
- New data from the Robert Koch Institute, a research agency run by the German government, found that nearly 96% of Omicron cases are among the fully vaccinated, Information Liberation reports.
- In total, 4,020 of 4,206 coronavirus patients were found to be fully vaccinated.
- “Robert Koch Institute report released today states that 95.58% of the #Omicron cases in Germany are fully vaccinated (28% of those had a “booster”), 4.42% are unvaccinated,” Disclose TV tweeted.
BACKGROUND:
- Over 71% of Germany’s population is fully vaccinated, according to Google data.
- Despite the country’s high vaccination rate, Germany’s COVID-19 infection rate is likely two to three times higher than even current data indicates, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said Wednesday, according to Newsweek.
- The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) “is the government’s central scientific institution in the field of biomedicine. It is one of the most important bodies for the safeguarding of public health in Germany,” according to the organization’s website.
