Many countries have started a vaccination drive to combat coronavirus. Germany has also began the vaccinated against Covid-19 since the beginning of the vaccination program on December 27.  A total of 476,959 people in Germany have been vaccinated against Covid-19,  up by almost 51,000 within one day.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Friday said that the vaccination rate stood at 5.7 per 1,000 inhabitants in Germany, according to the federal government agency for disease control and prevention RKI.

The majority of doses in Germany, more than 232,000, went out to people working in the health care sector, according to the RKI data. Another 188,000 people vaccinated against the virus were residents of nursing homes.  The German company BioNTech and US company Pfizer delivered an additional 668,000 doses to Germany's federal states on Friday, according to the German government. On Friday, the European Union (EU) ordered 300 million more doses from BioNTech and Pfizer.

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