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As part of the largest vaccination campaign in history, against COVID-19, 5.6 million vaccines have already been administered worldwide (as of December 30).
According to Bloomberg, vaccination against the coronavirus has started in 25 countries. Most of the doses were used in the US and China.
The agency cited shipping billions of doses of vaccines around the world as one of the most difficult logistical challenges ever taken on.
The United States is estimated to lead the vaccination race with 2.32 million vaccines against COVID-19.
For this in the United States, they use medicines from Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech. Both require two doses, several weeks apart.
In West Virginia, Alaska, North and South Dakota, the vaccination rate has reached 1.7%.
More than a million people were vaccinated in China, more than 600,000 in Israel and Great Britain and more than 400,000 in the Russian Federation.
Top 15 countries in terms of number of vaccines administered (as of December 30):
Coronavirus distribution map in the world:
As OBOZREVATEL reported:
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In European countries, on Sunday, December 27, they began to mass vaccinate against the coronavirus with vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech.
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Voluntary and free vaccination was started in France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and others.
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Earlier on December 26, vaccines began to be administered in Ukraine’s neighboring country Hungary (with a Pfizer drug).
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Ukraine signed on December 30 the first contract to receive 1.8 million doses of the Chinese vaccine against COVID-19.
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Doctors working with COVID-19, Ukrainians living in specialized institutions such as nursing homes and OOS participants will be the first to receive the Chinese Coronavac vaccine.
