“British folks, I envy you!”
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This is the title of the top article on the first page of Bild, a popular German magazine, on the 24th of last month. This is in preparation for Germany’s poorly vaccinated COVID-19 vaccination rate and the leading UK.
Germany’s’best quarantine country’ slows down in vaccination
Internal criticism of “the issue of administrative power, not quantity of supply” is also strong
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As the COVID-19 vaccination is in full swing, the joys of each country are mixed. As the trend shifts from the’first round’ of quarantine to the’second round’ of vaccination, the evaluation of each country’s response has changed significantly. Germany and England are representative. Germany, which used to be Europe’s representative’model country for quarantine’, is now envious of Britain, a’vaccine leader’.
On the 24th of last month, Biltzi, Germany, topped the front page and posted an article titled “British people, we envy you!” [빌트지 갈무리]
– According to Bloomberg on the 3rd (local time), Germany has administered about 6.4 million doses of the Corona 19 vaccine so far. The number of vaccinations per 100 people is 7.7. This is far short of the UK (31.92 episodes) and the United States (23.68 episodes).
What is pointed out as a bigger problem is that this delay in vaccination was not due to a lack of vaccines, but from a lack of administrative power.
According to the Financial Times (FT) that day, about 2.3 million doses of vaccines in Germany are unused and stocked. “Even Morocco has a faster vaccination rate than Germany,” said Marco Bushman, head of the German opposition Liberal Democratic Party over this situation.
Germany has been selected as a representative quarantine country in Europe in the Corona 19 pandemic. It suffered the most damage with Italy in the early March of last year, but it quickly regained stability through rapid and strong containment measures.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who led the response, also surged in approval ratings. In particular, whenever the quarantine crisis situation, he earnestly appealed for the importance of quarantine through speeches to the public and was evaluated as’the leadership necessary in the era of Corona 19′.
![German Chancellor Angela Merkel was evaluated for overcoming the crisis with outstanding leadership in the Corona 19 crisis last year. [EPA=연합뉴스]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202103/03/db462748-5d77-43eb-ae6c-cf5f1c2aaac4.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel was evaluated for overcoming the crisis with outstanding leadership in the Corona 19 crisis last year. [EPA=연합뉴스]
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Most of the vaccines left in stock are AstraZeneca vaccines. In Germany, only adults aged 18 to 64 years old are vaccinated. This is because there is not enough data to show that it works for people over 65 years old. The problem is that as a result of the controversy over AstraZeneca’s vaccination, even the general public under the age of 64 refused to receive the vaccination. In the case of France, it was decided to increase the vaccination age in the end, but in Germany, no other measures have come up yet.
![Vaccines developed by AstraZeneca-Oxford University are being stocked in European countries. As controversy over the effect, such as the restriction of the vaccination age, emerged, the general public was repelled. [AFP=연합뉴스]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202103/03/329c7c84-ceb7-4890-8f5f-f08d70a333f3.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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Vaccines developed by AstraZeneca-Oxford University are being stocked in European countries. As controversy over the effect, such as the restriction of the vaccination age, emerged, the general public was repelled. [AFP=연합뉴스]
– In addition, different and complex vaccination procedures by region are also pointed out as a problem. In the case of vaccination appointments, local health authorities send a letter directly to the subject, to the method of applying directly to the subject by phone or online. Germany’s Lower Saxony, where public officials are prohibited from directly accessing the address of the public, are often omitted from advance notices because they rely on private telecommunications companies.
In particular, it is pointed out that in the case of website reservations used by 5 out of 16 German states, a total of 10 steps must be taken, which is acting as a high entry barrier for the elderly. In response, Akim Berg, the head of German digital association Bitcom, told FT, “It is impossible for high-tech countries like Germany to be confused over vaccine reservations.”
Reporter Seok Kyung-min [email protected] 
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