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THE COVID-19 The pandemic has affected the lives of billions of people since it struck the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Official counts indicate that it caused infections and led to the death of people. The real toll can be even greater. Combat vaccines SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes the disease, were developed in record time. So far countries have mass vaccination programs in progress and, together, have administered about jabs. Our global data tracker covid-19 is updated twice daily with the latest figures.
Vaccination
Since the first inoculation in Britain on December 8, mass vaccination programs are now active on every continent in the world. Still, countries have not yet started vaccinating, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. So far of the world’s adults received a dose of the covid-19 vaccine. Vaccines for children have not yet been approved.
Doses sorted by country
In total, countries have ordered about vaccine doses from manufacturers to be delivered during 2021 (including vaccines not yet approved for use) according to a count by Airfinity, a life sciences data company. Although some manufacturers may experience delays, it would mean that there would be enough to shots for each of the 5.2 billion adults in the world. However, these doses are not shared equally. signed contracts for enough jabs to give each adult doses each while countries are expecting to receive only doses per adult, on average.
Doses by vaccine manufacturer and recipient
Many of the vaccines for poor and lower-middle-income countries come from an international program called COVAX. He plans to distribute as many as doses to 91 countries this year that would otherwise struggle to protect them. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the most requested vaccine. Prometheus doses for different countries and organizations this year, but faced production delays. So far vaccines producing a total of doses have received regulatory approval for use in the countries for which they have been requested.
First doses administered by country
A total of countries administered the first doses to more than 50% of adults. leads the way to collective immunity, having given the first doses to of adults.
Doses administered by country
Cases and deaths
It is estimated that perhaps three quarters of people infected with SARS-COV-2 have no symptoms. The quality of testing regimes varies enormously around the world. Tanzania has not reported a single case since May 2020, simply because it has not tested anyone. This makes it difficult to compare the number of cases between countries. However, trends can be informative. Cases have increased most rapidly in the past seven days in .
Confirmed cases by region
Cases can be hidden, but deaths are easier to detect, although reporting standards also vary. Completely of total global covid-19 deaths occurred in . Deaths in the last seven days are currently the highest in although they are growing faster in .
Confirmed deaths by region
Confirmed cases and deaths by country
Sources: Airfinity; Johns Hopkins University, CSSE; Our world in data; United Nations; The Economist
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