Paris. More than 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines were administered in 107 countries and territories, and 45 percent were injected in the rich G-7 countries, despite the fact that they only house 10 percent of the world’s population, according to an Afp count from official sources.
Until Saturday, a total of 201 million 42 thousand 149 administered doses were registered. But this figure is lower than the real one, since Russia and China have not communicated their official figures for ten days.
The G-7 countries announced on Friday their commitment in favor of a better distribution with poor countries, doubling their support for vaccination, which will reach 7.5 billion dollars, mainly through the Covax program, managed by the World Health Organization (WHO), which seeks to get enough injections to nations with fewer resources.
Still, the humanitarian agency Oxfam accused wealthy countries of giving “leftovers” of their vaccines to developing nations.
But right now, nine out of ten vaccines are injected in high- or medium-high-resource countries, according to the World Bank, and nearly half in the G-7.
In contrast, of the 29 “weak” income countries, only Guinea and Rwanda have started to inoculate. Some 1,840 million people – almost a quarter of the world’s population – live in nations that have not yet vaccinated. The United States, Canada, and European countries represent more than 68 million of the 110 million infections in the world.
In terms of death toll, the United States exceeds 495 thousand, well ahead of the second country on the list, Brazil (more than 244 thousand deaths). Europe adds more than 825 thousand deaths, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean, with more than 655 thousand.
“No country will be safe until all are,” the Organization of American States (OAS) warned this week in a resolution approved by acclamation by its Permanent Council, which brings together 34 active members.
The initiative, presented by the countries of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and co-sponsored by Argentina, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Uruguay, among others, highlights that defeating the virus in a “sustainable” way around the planet will depend “on the distribution of vaccines for all ”.
With 9 million inhabitants, Israel is the most advanced country in vaccination, with 49 percent of its population having received at least one dose of the vaccine. At this time, one in three inhabitants of that country (33 percent) has received the two necessary doses.
The infection rate in Israel fell 95.8 percent among people who received two doses of the biological from Pfizer, the Ministry of Health of that country reported yesterday. Tel Aviv this week blocked the passage of 2,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine that the Palestinians hoped to immunize their medical personnel in the Gaza Strip, the most densely populated territory in the world, where 53,000 cases and 538 deaths have been registered. .
Other countries have exceeded 10 percent of the inoculated population. These are the United Kingdom (25 percent), Bahrain (16 percent), the United States (13 percent), Chile (12 percent) and the Maldives (12 percent). In absolute numbers, the United States is the country that has injected the most drugs (59.6 million doses), ahead of China (40.5 million until February 9), the United Kingdom (17.5 million), India (10.7 million) and Israel ( 7.1 million).
Russia has approved CoviVac, its third vaccine, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin reported, although large-scale clinical trials of the injection, produced by the Chumakov Center, have not yet begun.
All adults in Britain will be offered a first injection at the end of July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.
Britain sent a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council calling for all parties to major conflicts in the world to immediately decree a “sustained humanitarian pause” to allow people in war zones to be vaccinated. .
Brazil registered 51 thousand 50 new confirmed cases, with which its national accumulated already exceeded 10 million. In that country they denounced on social networks the application of “air vaccines” to older adults.
Three videos, filmed in different states, showed that health professionals inserted needles in patients, but did not inject the dose against Covid-19 and even in one case they injected air into a woman.
The pandemic has left 111 million 32 thousand 169 confirmed cases, 2 million 459 thousand 49 deaths and 62 million 573 thousand 467 recovered, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.
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