PARIS, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in at least 107 countries and territories.
Some 45 percent of the injections took places in countries belonging to the wealthy G7 club, whose members promised to share doses more fairly with worse-off countries.
The G7 accounts for just 10 percent of the global population.
In total 201,042,149 doses had been given worldwide by 1000 GMT — a figure that does not include the latest data from China and Russia, who have stopped making their progress public in recent days.
G7 leaders plan to more than double their total support to worldwide vaccinations, to $7.5 billion.
More broadly, 92% of doses worldwide have been given in countries classified by the World Bank as “high-income” or “upper-middle income”, accounting for around half of global population.
Among the 29 countries the institution ranks as “low-income”, only Guinea and Rwanda have begun vaccinating.
Israel is far ahead of any other country with almost half its population having received at least one vaccine dose. One in three Israelis has received both doses needed for full protection.
Other countries to have given more than 10% of their people at least one dose include Britain (25%), Bahrain (16), the U.S. (13), Chile (12), the Seychelles (43) and the Maldives (12).
In absolute figures, the US has injected more people than any other nation, with 59.6 million doses. China had reached 40.5 million by Feb 9, while Britain is at 17.5 million, India 10.7 million and Israel 7.1 million. — NNN-AGENCIES
