The autumn round had the fastest start of all corona vaccination rounds in October. In three weeks time, almost a quarter of the over-60s had received an injection. There were 500 to 600 thousand injections per week. The pace is now much slower. Between 13 and 20 November, ‘only’ 130,000 shots were administered.
Vaccination coverage is particularly high among people over the age of 60: over 55 percent received a vaccination this autumn. In contrast, only slightly more than a quarter of all over-18s have been revaccinated. Less than 10 percent of teenagers, people in their twenties and thirties received a new injection in the autumn.
Among young people, the turnout for the booster injection was also much lower last winter than among older age groups. The vaccination rate of the booster will not increase in the coming period either. If someone did not get a booster, but does get a repeat shot, this shot counts as a repeat shot in the figures.
In Europe, only Denmark, Sweden and Belgium have a higher proportion of the over-18s obtained a second repeat injection. Belgium is head and shoulders above the rest: in mid-November, 40 percent of the adult population already had a repeat shot. In the Netherlands, the vaccination rate among people over 18 was 25 percent. It has since risen to 26 percent. Countries in Eastern Europe are lagging behind, where less than 10 percent of the adult population has received a repeat injection. Also in Italy (10 percent) the vaccination coverage of the autumn round is still relatively low.