Pandemic: how many people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 worldwide

In recent weeks, the the biggest vaccination campaign in history of humanity. In the context of the pandemic, to date, over 3.5 million doses have been administered in seven countries, according to data compiled by the international agency Bloomberg. Delivering millions of new doses will be one of the biggest logistical challenges of recent years.

Strictly speaking, the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 has been much faster than the development of any other vaccine. According to the site OurworldindataIn less than a year, several effective vaccines have already been announced and approved for use in some countries.

Distribution of the dose in the United States began Dec. 14 to healthcare workers and so far 1.23 million vaccines have been administered, according to a state-by-state tally from Bloomberg. There, those numbers are accelerating as a second vaccine from Moderna Inc. is distributed.

China and Russia licensed their own vaccines in July and August, before they were fully tested. They have since vaccinated more than a million people.

This is how they package and distribute the Russian vaccine Sputnik V in Argentina

In the meantime, this Thursday, December 24 Chile and Mexico became the first Latin American countries to vaccinate against Covid-19. In the case of Chile, the vaccination process will begin this 25 after the arrival in the country of the first 10,000 doses of the vaccine developed by the American-German pharmaceutical duo Pfizer / BioNTech.

Argentina, for its part, received 300,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, manufactured in Russia, the emergency use of which has been approved by the Argentine authorities. A week ago, Puerto Rico had already started applying the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and is also administering the Moderna vaccine, according to BBC

In Brazil, the Latin American country with the highest number of deaths from this disease, the vaccination program is expected to start in mid-February, despite the increase in infections.

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