COVID-19: Over 400m Doses Of Vaccines Administered Globally

• European Union countries have given 54.4 million doses to 8.5 percent of the bloc’s population
• The vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University has already been administered in some 100 countries or territories, outshining its competitors

More than 400 million doses of vaccines have been given around the world as of Thursday, acccording to an AFP tally.

Despite the suspension of the AstraZeneca shot in more than a dozen countries, vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 continue to pick up speed, the count based on official sources found.

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In a sign of how the pace is picking up, the last 100 million people vaccinated got their jabs in 11 days — six times faster than it took to give the first 100 million.

By Thursday at 1630 GMT at least 402.3 million doses had been administered in more than 158 countries around the world.

While rich countries have fared best, vaccination in the poorer countries is at last starting under the free Covax programme.

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