Covid-19: three billion doses of vaccines administered worldwide

More than three billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines have been administered worldwide, according to an AFP count made Tuesday June 29 from official sources.

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While the first billion had been reached at the end of April, approximately 5 months after the start of the mass vaccination campaigns in December and the second billion at the end of May, it took less than 4 weeks to reach this third billion.

Some 40% of the doses administered worldwide (1.2 billion) were in China.

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

But compared to the population, among countries with more than one 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.

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

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

32% of Europeans fully vaccinated

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

Some 32% of Europeans are therefore fully vaccinated.

Malta, the smallest country in the Union, is by far the most advanced, with more than 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.

While most poor countries have now started to vaccinate, mainly thanks to the Covax mechanism (WHO, Gavi alliance and Cepi coalition), anti-Covid vaccination remains marked by strong inequalities: “

high income

” countries (within the meaning of World Bank) administered an average of 79 doses per 100 population, compared to a single dose in “

low-income

” countries.

Five countries have still not started their campaign: Tanzania, Burundi, Eritrea, Haiti and North Korea.

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