Where are the fastest deployments and how does Ireland compare?

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Almost 10 percent of the total population of the Republic has received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine, new figures show.

Until March 18, a total of 654,251 vaccines were administered: 478,725 first doses and 175,526 second doses.

Health officials expect the 30,000 people who did not receive the AstraZeneca vaccine last week to be covered for the next seven to ten days.

Use of AstraZeneca in the state was halted last Sunday following reports of unusual blood clots in Norway.

It resumed on Saturday after the jab received a green light from the European Medicines Agency and the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.

The hiatus saw the daily vaccination rate drop – only 303 Covid vaccines were administered last Sunday.

In the north, more than 662,000 people had received their first puncture as of March 20, while just over 75,000 are fully vaccinated.

Vaccines have now spread to people aged 50 to 59 in Northern Ireland.

The update means that 9.6 percent of the Republic’s total population has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, compared to 35 percent in the North.

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According to the latest data available from March 21, Ireland has a slightly higher vaccination rate than the European average, with 13 doses administered per 100 people.

Malta, Hungary, Estonia and Denmark have the fastest deployments in the EU.

The United Kingdom, Serbia, Turkey, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland have also administered more vaccines per capita than Ireland.

In absolute numbers, Germany is the EU country with the most doses administered, with 10.5 million distributed.

Globally, the United States has administered the largest number of doses overall, with more than 121 million, while China has administered 70 million.

Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Chile top the world list when the figures are broken down by population, with 112, 73 and 44 doses administered per 100 people, respectively.

Meanwhile, EU financial services commissioner Maireád McGuinness has said EU leaders will consider whether to impose bans on the export of coronavirus vaccines to countries outside the bloc.

She told the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday: “European citizens are increasingly angry and upset that the launch of the vaccine has not happened as quickly as we had anticipated.

“Both the EU and the UK have contracts with AstraZeneca and I understand that the company supplies the UK, but not the European Union.

“We are supplying the UK with other vaccines so I think it’s just about openness and transparency.”

McGuinness said the EU had been accused of “vaccine nationalism” but said its approach was internationalist and cited EU vaccine exports to 31 countries, including the UK.

He said the focus should now be on preparing for the “what ifs”, as another possible variant of the disease, while at the same time increasing vaccine production globally, as the world would have to live with Covid and possible new ones. variants of that, for much longer than this year.

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