Covid-19: three billion doses of vaccines administered worldwide

More than three billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered worldwide to date.

This figure comes from an AFP count made this Tuesday at 11 a.m. from official sources.

While the first billion had been reached 20 weeks after the start of the first mass vaccination campaigns in December and the second billion in 6 weeks, it took less than 4 weeks to reach this third billion.

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About 40% of the doses of the anti-Covid vaccine administered worldwide (1.2 billion) were in China.

India (329 million) and the United States (324 million) complete the podium.

But, reported to the population, among countries of more than a million inhabitants, it is in the Middle East that the champions of vaccination are to be found: the United Arab Emirates (153 doses per 100 inhabitants), Bahrain (124) and Israel (124).

These countries are approaching or exceeding 60% of the population fully immunized.

Chile (118 doses per 100 inhabitants), the United Kingdom (113), Mongolia (111), Uruguay (110), Hungary (107), Qatar (107), United States (98).

These countries have fully immunized about half of their population (between 46% and 54%).

One third of EU inhabitants fully vaccinated

As for the European Union (EU), it administered 357 million doses to 50% of its population.

32% of the inhabitants of the block are fully vaccinated.

Malta, the smallest country in the Union, is by far the most advanced, with over 70% of its population fully vaccinated.

The most populous countries in the EU (Germany, France, Italy, Spain) hover around the average, with around a third of their population fully vaccinated.

3 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have now been administered!

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An average of 41.2 million new doses are administered each day.

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23.2% of the world population has received at least one dose, but only 0.9% of people in low-income countries.https: //t.co/jeZaePmiJd pic.twitter.com/n3KaKuKSwO

- Edouard Mathieu (@redouad) June 29, 2021

While most poor countries have now started to vaccinate, mainly thanks to the Covax international assistance mechanism, anti-Covid vaccination remains marked by strong inequalities: “high income” countries (in the sense of the World Bank) have administered on average 79 doses per 100 inhabitants, compared to a single dose per 100 inhabitants in “low-income” countries. Five countries have still not started their campaign: Tanzania, Burundi, Eritrea, Haiti and North Korea.

Despite the controversies it has been the subject of, the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine, administered in nearly 80% of the countries and territories that vaccinate (at least 171 out of 216), is the most widely distributed in the world. It is ahead of competing serums developed by Pfizer / BioNTech (102 countries, 47%), Sinopharm and Moderna (48 countries, 22%), Sputnik V (41 countries, 19%), Johnson & Johnson (31 countries, 14%) and Sinovac (24 countries, 11%).