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Paris (AFP)
More than a billion doses of covid-19 vaccines were administered worldwide, according to an AFP count this Saturday at 5:45 p.m. GMT, four and a half months after the first mass vaccination campaigns in December.
In 207 countries or territories, at least 1,002,938,540 doses of the different immunizers against the coronavirus were injected, according to a count carried out from official sources.
58% of these vaccines were injected in three countries: the United States (225.6 million), China (216.1 million) and India (138.4 million).
However, Israel is the country with the highest percentage of fully vaccinated population, around 60%.
Among the countries that vaccinated the most, followed by the United Kingdom (49% of the population with at least one dose), the United Arab Emirates (more than 51%), the United States (42%), Chile (41%), Bahrain (38 %) or Uruguay (32%).
The countries of the European Union administered 128 million doses, although in different ways depending on the states. Those that vaccinated the most were Malta (47% with the first dose) and Hungary (37%), while the largest countries are all at the same levels: France (20.5%), Germany (22.6%), Italy (19.9%) and Spain (22.3%).
As of March 25, 500 million doses had been injected. In this last month this figure has doubled and has already exceeded 1,000 million.
Although many poor or developing countries have already started vaccinating thanks to the Covax mechanism, they have a limited amount of immunizers.
The countries with “low income”, according to the World Bank, only administered 0.2% of the doses, while those “with high income” injected 47% of the doses, although their population represents 16% of the total of The humanity.
There are still 12 countries that have not started vaccinating. Seven of them are in Africa (Tanzania, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, Chad, Burundi, Central African Republic and Eritrea), three in Oceania (Vanuatu, Samoa and Kiribati), one in Asia (North Korea) and another in the Caribbean ( Haiti).
Despite the controversies surrounding the AstraZeneca / Oxford drug, it is the most widely used in the world, given that it is being injected in 156 of the 207 countries that vaccinate.
The Pfizer / BioNTech immunizer is used by 91 countries (44%), Moderna by 46 (22%), Sinopharm by 41 (20%), Sputnik V by 32 (15%) and Sinovac by 21 (10%).
© 2021 AFP
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