The vaccines the countries with the most doses are actually using
By Daniel Coughlin of Lovemoney |
Tracking the biggest coronavirus vaccine orders around the world
Several COVID-19 vaccines have now been approved, although some European countries have currently stopped using the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, and the race is on to immunise the world against coronavirus and get back life to normal. Click or scroll through the countries and groups of nations that have secured the most vaccine doses based on the latest data collated by Duke University s Global Health Innovation Center for its Launch & Scale Speedometer, which tracks coronavirus vaccine orders around the globe, as of 12 March 2021. All dollar amounts in US dollars unless otherwise stated.
Regulator Vouches for AstraZeneca, Despite Suspension by European Countries
The suspension impedes Europe’s already troubled vaccination campaign amid a third coronavirus wave. Europe’s top drug regulator said there was no sign that the shot had caused dangerous side effects.
A drive-through vaccination center in Milan on Monday, the day Italy suspended use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.Credit.Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times
Published March 16, 2021Updated March 23, 2021
LONDON After the European Union’s biggest countries suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, the continent’s top drug regulator pushed back hard on Tuesday against fears about the shot, saying there was no sign of its causing rare but dangerous problems, and strong evidence that its lifesaving benefits “outweigh the risk of the side effects.”
March 16, 2021 at 6:30 am
Months before the first COVID-19 vaccine was even approved, wealthy nations scrambled to line up hundreds of millions of advance doses. These would go to their citizens and no others. By the end of 2020, Canada had bought 266 million doses. That was enough to vaccinate all its people four times over. The United Kingdom snagged three times what its people needed. The United States, home to 330 million, reserved more than 1 billion doses and is now vaccinating more than a million people a day.
It’s a very different story in poorer nations. As of March 4, people in more than 80 countries have not yet gotten even one dose. Only 55 total doses were delivered to the 29 lowest-income countries; and all of them went to people in the West African nation of Guinea. Only a few countries in sub-Saharan Africa have begun regular COVID-19 vaccine programs.
Chris Bowen says other countries struck deals for a billion doses of the Pfizer vaccine before Australia signed its agreement. Is he correct?
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Former opposition spokesman for health Chris Bowen says a billion doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine were accounted for around the world before the Government made a deal with the company in November.
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The first doses of Australia s COVID-19 vaccination program have at last been administered, but concerns have been expressed that the rollout will be slowed by supply constraints.
In announcing Australia s November deal with Pfizer to supply 10 million doses of its vaccine, Prime Minister Scott Morrison claimed the agreement, along with another deal signed with Novavax for 50 million doses, had put Australia at the front of the queue .
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