Coronavirus: 15% of Germans have been vaccinated, says RKI
By DW
12 April 2021 |
10:26 am
The Robert Koch Institute for disease control says 12.7 million people have received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine. On Saturday, hundreds of protesters across Germany demanded stricter lockdown measures.
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