A health worker is injecting Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine.
- As many as 4 billion Covid-19 jabs have been carried out worldwide.
- However, poorer countries are still working hard to promote vaccines.
- Approximately 40% of vaccine injections are carried out in China.
Although more than 4 billion doses of anti-coronavirus vaccines have been vaccinated around the world, despite recent donations, poorer countries are still struggling to ensure access to valuable vaccines.
According to statistics from AFP based on official sources, as of 1100 GMT on Thursday, at least 4,014,302,550 doses were injected into people’s arms.
The global injection volume has slowed slightly: it reached the fourth billion dose in 30 days, while it took 26 days to reach the previous dose. The first and second billions were reached after approximately 140 days and 40 days, respectively.
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Approximately 40% (1.6 billion) of the 4 billion injections were performed in China. India (451 million) and the United States (343 million) constitute the three countries that have executed the most jabs.
Among countries with a population of more than 1 million, the United Arab Emirates is in a leading position: 168 doses of the first and second doses are given to every 100 inhabitants. Uruguay (137) is followed closely by Bahrain (134).
Nearly 70% of the UAE’s population is vaccinated, while Uruguay and Bahrain both have vaccination rates above 60%.
After this, the leading countries are Qatar, Chile and Canada (129 times per 100 inhabitants), Israel (128 times), Singapore (125 times), the United Kingdom, Mongolia and Denmark (124 times) and Belgium (122 times).
These countries have fully vaccinated more than half of the population.
It is closely followed by China (111), the United States (104) and the European Union (103). The United States and the European Union have vaccinated nearly half of the population. China does not convey this information.
U.S
However, the US election campaign started enthusiastically, and the rate of vaccination is now much slower.
In the past week, it only attacked 0.2% of the population every day, far behind China (1.1%) and the European Union (0.7%).
In terms of speed, Bhutan currently leads the vaccination race, vaccinating 4.9% of the population every day.
Like the first dose of vaccine earlier this year, the country has vaccinated nearly 60% of its population with a second dose of vaccine within 10 days, a speed unmatched by any other country.
Malaysia and Sri Lanka are close behind in the speed rankings, impacting 1.5% of their population every day.
In Europe, the fastest countries are Denmark, Ireland, and Turkey (1.1% each), followed by Belgium and France (1%).
Africa is behind
Most poor countries have now started vaccinations, mainly due to unused doses donated by the Covax program and rich countries.
But the vaccination coverage rate is still very unequal.
High-income countries (as defined by the World Bank) average 97 doses per 100 residents, while low-income countries only receive 1.6 doses.
After major donations of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, injections in these countries have recently increased.
Africa is still the most backward continent, with 4.8 injections per 100 inhabitants, 10 times less than the world average of 52 injections.
Although many wealthy countries are already vaccinating their young people, three countries are not vaccinated at all: Burundi, Eritrea, and North Korea.
Haiti and Tanzania started their campaigns on July 16 and 28, respectively.
