An interactive map allows you to see how many days are left to obtain collective immunity in each country

As in Argentina this Friday the new AMBA restrictions debuted and the vaccination campaign continues, many other countries are seeing “the light at the end of the road” more closely, looking for the ‘final objective: obtain herd immunity and come back to something close to the reality before Covid-19.

The TimeToHerd portal (in English, the time to the herd) set up an interactive map that allows you to calculate the number of days each country has to reach this goal. Key detail: it is estimated that 70% of the population must be vaccinated to obtain the long-awaited collective immunity.

According to specialists, by vaccinating 70% of a country’s population, the measures and customs that have marked most of 2020 and all of 2021 could begin to relax.

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The interactive map allows, on the one hand, Choose a country up to see exactlye how many days left to achieve collective immunity, depending on the vaccination campaigns they conduct. When changing countries, the percentage of vaccines needed to reach the target may also vary, as some countries estimate that 60% of the population is sufficient and others target 85% of the population.

The first country that appears in the system is the United States and the graphs show that 30% of the population has been vaccinated with at least one dose and 1% of the population is vaccinated daily. For this reason, the country ruled by Joe Biden is expected to reach the goal of 70% of people vaccinated in 78 days.

In Latin America, Chile is the country closest to collective immunity. According to the portal, he has already vaccinated 34.53% of the vaccinated population and would reach the target in 82 days, since 8.87% of residents receive a daily dose.

Argentina has, at this rate, about a year to reach the desired 70%. The platform, available on timetoherd.com, indicates that there are 346 days left to reach the goal, since for the moment 6.85% of the inhabitants have been vaccinated and the percentage of vaccinated daily is only 0.37 %.

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Since Covid-19 appeared a year and a half ago in China, more than three million people around the world have died and nearly 140 million have been infected.

Globally, new infections per week have nearly doubled in the past two months and is approaching the highest infection rate seen so far during the pandemic, the World Health Organization has warned ( WHO).