Israel has already vaccinated more than a million people and leads the global per capita ranking

More than one million people have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus in Israel, which has a total population of 9 million, leading the ranking as a percentage of the vaccinated population, 11.55%.

Behind, far behind, are Bahrain, with 3.49% of the population vaccinated, and the United Kingdom, which has reached 1.47%, according to data collected by the Our World in Data portal, linked to the University of ‘Oxford. .

Israel began the vaccination campaign on December 19 and is administering the drug to some 150,000 people a day, primarily those over 60, health workers and populations at risk. Use the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.

These data relate to people who received the first dose of the vaccine. The vast majority of licensed vaccines require two doses given at least one week apart.

For comparison, the statistic of France is striking, which had vaccinated only 138 people as of December 30, while the United States is of 2.78 million, a figure far from the stated goal of vaccinating 20 million. people before 2020 will end.

The low rate in France and other countries could be due to the reluctance of the population, since according to an Ipsos Global survey in 15 countries, in France only 40% of the population was ready to be vaccinated. In China it is 80%, 77% in the UK and 69% in the US.