A new poll on Covid-19 vaccinations in Germany showed clear differences to the official figures that are reported by the German public health body, the Robert Koch Institute, German news magazine Spiegel said on Saturday. This is 16 percentage points higher than the official RKI statistics for that period, which gave the figure for this age group as 59 percent. READ ALSO: German public health authority to investigate ‘underreported’ Covid jabsREAD ALSO: ANALYSIS: Is Germany underestimating its Covid vaccination numbers? The differences indicated that the actual vaccination rate is significantly higher than statistics show, DIW researcher Mathias Huebener told Spiegel. If correct, that would mean around five million more people had received a first vaccine dose than the official RKI data indicates.

Source: The Local August 15, 2021 17:37 UTC