The world has already applied 5,000 million vaccines: what is Argentina in?

In the world, more than 5,000 million doses of vaccine against Covid-19 since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. On your side, Argentina provided nearly 40 million doses: 0.8% of all vaccines all over the planet.

According to an agency statement AFP From official sources, this Tuesday, August 24, the world exceeded 5,000 million doses applied. They took 26 days to administer 1 billion vaccines, from 4,000 to 5,000 million doses, an injection rate similar to that seen in the 3,000 and 4,000 million (which took 30 and 26 days, respectively). On the contrary, it took 140 days to inject the first billion doses.

China continues to represent four out of ten injections administered worldwide, with a total of 1.96 billion doses. India (589 million) and United States (363 million) complete the podium in absolute values. Then Brazil appears with 178 million.

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But in relation to the population, for every hundred inhabitants, United Arab Emirates it tops the list with 179 doses, and nearly 75% of its population is fully vaccinated.

They follow him Uruguay with 154 doses per 100 inhabitants and 70% of its population with the complete vaccination schedule. Then they come Israel (149), Qatar (148), Singapore (147), Bahrain (144), Denmark (143), Chile (140), Canada (139), Portugal and Belgium (138), Mainland china (136), Spain (134), Ireland (133) and UK (132).

Most of these countries already vaccinated 70% of their population and some, like the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Israel, Uruguay or Chile have started to administer a third dose to prolong vaccination of fully vaccinated people.

On your side, United States has 52% of its population fully vaccinated and 110 doses administered per 100 inhabitants.

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Although most poor countries have already launched their vaccination campaign, mainly thanks to the Covax mechanism (WHO, GAVI Alliance and Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI)), the the differences between “high income” and “low income” countries are very large.

The “high incomes” (term of the World Bank) administered an average of 111 doses per 100 inhabitants. On the other side of the scale, “low income” countries are only 2.4.

The the world average is 64 doses per 100 inhabitants. Three countries still do not have an ongoing vaccination campaign: Burundi, Eritrea and North Korea.

Vaccination: what situation Argentina is in

Our country according to Public vaccination monitor, until this morning 44,989,834 doses of vaccines have been distributed throughout the country, while the total requests 39,951,618. Of this total, 27,414,859 people were vaccinated with the first dose and 12,536,759 were on the full vaccination schedule.

In this way, Argentina is ranked 19th among the countries that have applied the most vaccines, with 0.8% of doses supplied worldwide.

However, in Relative to the population, i.e. per 100 inhabitants, Argentina vaccinated 86.59, according to the figures of Our world in data. In this ranking, Argentina is the 81st country that has vaccinated the most in relation to its population. But it should be clarified that this page includes data for many small countries, islands or territories that are not considered countries.

Since the start of the vaccination campaign, Argentina has received 48,210,120 vaccines, of which 16,304,000 correspond to Sinopharm; 13,118,795 to Sputnik V (9,775,635 of component 1 and 3,343,160 of component 2); 11,415,700 to those of AstraZeneca and Oxford, the active ingredient of which was produced in Argentina; 3,500,000 in Moderna; 1,944,000 to AstraZeneca through the WHO COVAX mechanism; 580,000 at AstraZeneca-Covishield and 200,000 at Cansino. Similarly, the national pharmaceutical company Richmond produced 1,147,625 doses of Sputnik V in the country: 995,125 of component 1 and 152,500 of component 2.

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