Covid-19 vaccines have been given to more than three billion people around the world
PARIS, June 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than three billion doses of vaccines have been administered worldwide, according to a count carried out Tuesday from official sources.
Although the first 1,000 million inoculated doses were reached 20 weeks after the start of the first mass vaccination campaigns in December, and the two billion in six weeks, the 3,000 million doses administered took less than four weeks.
About 40% of doses administered worldwide (1.2 billion) were in China, while India (329 million) and the United States (324 million) closed the podium.
In terms of population, among countries with more than one million inhabitants, the champions of vaccination are found in the Middle East: United Arab Emirates (153 doses per 100 inhabitants), Bahrain (124) and Israel (124), are countries that approach or have already surpassed the 60% barrier of the fully immunized population.
Chile (118 doses per 100 inhabitants), the United Kingdom (113), Mongolia (111), Uruguay (110), Hungary (107), Qatar (107) and the United States (98), are countries that have fully immunized about half of the population (between 46% and 54%).
The European Union has administered 357 million doses to 50% of its population.
About 32% of the inhabitants of the community bloc are advanced, with Malta, the smallest country in the Union, by far the most advanced, with more than 70% of the population fully vaccinated.
The most populous countries in the EU — Germany, France, Italy and Spain — hover around the matter, with about a third of the population vaccinated.
While most poor countries have already started to vaccinate, mainly thanks to the COVAX mechanism (World Health Organization, Gavi alliance and Cepi coalition), vaccination against covid-19 continues to be marked by strong inequalities: “high-income” countries (according to the World Bank) administered an average of 79 doses per 100 population, compared to just one dose in “low-income” countries.
At the same time, there are still countries that have not started the vaccination campaign, such as Tanzania, Burundi, Eritrea, Haiti and North Korea.
Despite the controversy that has been the target, the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, administered in almost 80% of the countries and territories that are vaccinating (at least 171 in 2016), is the most distributed in the world, ahead of the competition developed by Pfizer /BioNTech (at least 102 countries, or 47%), Sinopharm and Moderna (at least 48 countries, 22%), Sputnik V (at least 41 countries, 19%), Johnson & Johnson (at least 31 countries, 14%) and Sinovac (at least 24 countries, 11%).
The covid-19 pandemic has caused the death of at least 3,925,816 victims worldwide, resulting from 181,026,547 officially diagnosed cases of infection.
The respiratory disease is caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China. — NNN-AGENCIES
