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Covid-19: More than 2.1 million people vaccinated in six countries -Bloomberg Tracker

By alternativeafrica
December 22, 2020
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London, Dec. 22, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The first Covid-19 shots have been given to more than 2.1 million people in six countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. It’s the start of the biggest vaccination campaign in history and one of the largest logistical challenges ever undertaken.

US President-elect Joe Biden receives a Covid-19 vaccination from Tabe Masa, Nurse Practitioner and Head of Employee Health Services, at the Christiana Care campus in Newark, Delaware on December 21, 2020. (Photo by Alex Edelman / AFP) (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

READ ALSO: RUSSIA SIGN AGREEMENT WITH ASTRAZENECA/OXFORD VACCINE TO TEST COMBINATION OF SHOTS

Vaccinations in the U.S. began Dec. 14 with health-care workers, and so far 614,117 doses have been administered, according to a nationwide tally from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

Margaret Keenan, 90, is applauded by staff as she returns to her ward after becoming first patient in Britain to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at University Hospital, at the start of the largest ever immunisation programme in the British history, in Coventry, Britain December 8, 2020. Britain is the first country in the world to start vaccinating people with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. (Image by PA/ES)

Those numbers are expected to surge in coming days with the distribution of a second vaccine by Moderna Inc. Bloomberg is also tracking doses at the state and territory level to give a picture of how the rollout is going nationwide.

Today, with confidence in science & at the direction of the Office of the Attending Physician, I received the COVID-19 vaccine. As the vaccine is being distributed, we must all continue mask wearing, social distancing & other science-based steps to save lives & crush the virus. pic.twitter.com/tijVCSnJd7

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) December 18, 2020

The U.S. is allocating 5.1 million doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine and 6 million doses of Moderna’s shot for distribution through this week. Both vaccines require two doses taken several weeks apart. The second doses are being held in reserve until they’re ready to be administered. The vaccine is being distributed based on state population.

U.S. Vaccine Campaign

States reported their first inoculations against Covid-19

JurisdictionFirst doses allottedDoses administeredLast updated
U.S. official totals11,042,450614,117Dec. 21
Illinois407,62572,383Dec. 21
Chicago86,7759,383Dec. 21
California1,233,22570,258Dec. 21
Florida675,02543,716Dec. 21
Texas844,65042,248Dec. 21
New York635,77538,000Dec. 21
New York City274,20018,199Dec. 21
Colorado175,55033,934Dec. 21
Massachusetts224,27520,577Dec. 21
Puerto Rico112,07517,800Dec. 18
Pennsylvania416,52517,700Dec. 21
West Virginia60,87515,135Dec. 21
Michigan318,87513,321Dec. 20
Louisiana146,77511,498Dec. 18

Show more 👆Note: State totals may not match CDC nationwide numbers because of differences in reporting. Data gathered from government websites, press conferences, public statements and Bloomberg interviews. Some states haven’t reported vaccination tallies, and it can take several days for counts to be added to local databases. State totals include city-level vaccine jurisdictions. States with asterisks have incomplete data.

Global Effort to Stop Covid-19

Canada and the U.K. are among the countries that have also authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and it’s expected to get emergency clearance in the EU as soon as next week. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the shot from Moderna were both found to reduce coronavirus infections by 95% in trials of tens of thousands of volunteers.

Other countries have gotten a head start on vaccinations. China and Russia authorized their own shots in July and August, before they’d been fully tested. Since then, they’ve vaccinated hundreds of thousands of people.

The Global Vaccination Campaign

More than 2.1 million shots have been administered around the world

CountryPeople vaccinatedLast updated
China650,000Dec. 19
U.S.614,117Dec. 21
U.K.500,000Dec. 21
England108,000Dec. 15
Scotland18,000Dec. 15
Wales7,897Dec. 15
Northern Ireland5,300Dec. 15
Russia320,000Dec. 15
Israel10,000Dec. 20
Canada6,991–
Quebec4,831Dec. 21
Ontario2,000Dec. 18
Newfoundland and Labrador160Dec. 18

Note: Data gathered from government websites, press conferences, public statements and Bloomberg interviews. Some countries may report national totals separately from their interior jurisdictions, so numbers for countries and their jurisdictions may not always match.

The R&D Timeline

Bloomberg is tracking the development of nine of the globe’s most promising vaccines. A total of six vaccines are now available for public use, in limited quantities, in at least six countries.

Nations have poured billions of dollars into developing new vaccine technologies, testing them in thousands of volunteers, scaling up manufacturing, and then bringing them to market in record time.

None of these shots, on its own, is enough to inoculate a global population of some 7.8 billion people. But together they represent humanity’s best chance of ending a scourge that has claimed more than 1.6 million lives and triggered global economic calamity. Bloomberg

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