Coronavirus vaccine shots given worldwide

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The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 5.43 billion doses have been administered across 183 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 41 million doses a day.

In the U.S., 374 million doses have been given so far. In the last week, an average of 954,046 doses per day were administered.

World Map of Vaccinations

More than 5.43 billion doses have been administered—enough to fully vaccinate 35.4% of the global population

 

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Global Developments

Here are the global developments in the coronavirus crisis:

– Anti-vaxx clashes –

Anti-vaccination protesters clash with police in London as some try to storm the offices of the UK regulator that approves vaccines, with police saying four officers were hurt.

– EU and AstraZeneca settle dispute –

The European Union and UK-based drugs giant AstraZeneca announce that they have reached a settlement in a dispute over a shortfall in vaccine deliveries.

– Delta in Niger –

The first cases of the Delta variant of Covid-19 have been recorded in Niger, which until now has been relatively spared in the pandemic.

– Air quality blip –

Pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions caused dramatic but short-lived improvements in air quality and drops in pollution, the UN says.

– Singapore booster shots –

Singapore will start giving coronavirus vaccine booster shots to the elderly and those with weak immune systems as cases rise despite high inoculation rates.

– US hiring slumps –

The United States added far fewer jobs than expected in August as businesses grappled with the Delta wave of Covid-19.

– No shots for 12-15s advice –

The UK government’s independent advisory body on vaccines says it will not recommend jabbing all 12- to 15-year-olds against coronavirus, arguing the benefits were “too small”.

– Malaysian holiday island to reopen –

The island of Langkawi will this month become the first Malaysian holiday hotspot to reopen to domestic travellers, kicking off efforts to revive the coronavirus-battered tourism industry.

– More than 4.5 million dead –

The coronavirus has killed at least 4,539,397 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP compilation of official data.

The US is the worst-affected country with 643,669 deaths, followed by Brazil with 581,914, India with 439,895, Mexico 261,496 and Peru 198,364.

Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were the US with 1,549, followed by Mexico with 993 and Russia with 799.

 

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US Ships 6.6 Million Doses of Pfizer Vaccine to Pakistan.

The United States has shipped 6.6 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to Pakistan through its COVAX global distribution program

 

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More than 5.52 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, equal to 72 doses for every 100 people. There is already a stark gap between vaccination programs in different countries,

 

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PIA brings 5.9m Covid doses from China

Govt to vaccinate 75m people by the end of 2021


APP
September 08, 2021

ISLAMABAD/BEIJING: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) continues to uplift Covid-19 vaccines from China to Pakistan as its two special cargo flights transported a new batch of 5.9 million doses from Beijing Capital International Airport to Islamabad.

Special cargo flights – PK-6852 and PK-6853 took off from Beijing for Islamabad on Monday and Tuesday and transported 5.9 million doses, Qadir Bux Sangi, PIA Country Manager for China said on Tuesday.

On August 29, the national flag carrier airlifted around 12 million doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccines through its four special cargo flights.

The PIA special flights PK-6852, PK-6853, PK-6854 and PK-6856 transported 12 million doses of Sinovac vaccine procured from China for vaccination of people under government's ongoing prevention and control drive against Covid-19 pandemic, he added.

He said that under the leadership of CEO Arshad Malik, the national flag carrier had so far airlifted over 63 million doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccine through 49 special flights.

The government under its mass vaccination drive has set a target to vaccinate 75 million people by the end of 2021.

Chinese vaccines namely Sinopharm, Sinovac and CanSino besides other vaccines are being used in the mass vaccination drive.

The health authorities launched a nationwide vaccination drive with around a million doses of Sinopharm vaccine donated by China, starting with older people and frontline healthcare workers, in March this year.

The drive began with a focus on the oldest people in the community, generally over the age of 80 but now the vaccine is being administered to people aged over 18 years.

Islamabad received the first Covid-19 vaccine consignment after a military aircraft transported it from Beijing on February 1.

 

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WHO urges COVID-19 vaccine booster moratorium until 2022

"We do not want to see widespread use of boosters for healthy people who are fully vaccinated," WHO chief says


AFP
Wednesday, Sep 08, 2021

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation called Wednesday for countries to avoid giving out extra COVID-19 jabs until year-end, pointing to the millions worldwide who have yet to receive a single dose.

"I will not stay silent when the companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines think the world's poor should be satisfied with leftovers," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists.

Speaking from WHO's headquarters in Geneva, Tedros urged wealthy countries and vaccine makers to prioritise getting the first jabs to health workers and vulnerable populations in poorer nations over boosters.

"We do not want to see widespread use of boosters for healthy people who are fully vaccinated," he said.

The WHO called last month for a moratorium on Covid-19 vaccine booster shots until the end of September to address the drastic inequity in dose distribution between rich and poor nations.

But Tedros acknowledged Wednesday that there had "been little change in the global situations since then.

"So today I am calling for an extension of the moratorium until at least the end of the year," he said.

High-income countries had promised to donate more than one billion vaccine doses to poorer countries, he said — "but less than 15% of those doses have materialised.

"We don't want any more promises," he said. "We just want the vaccines."

'Appalled'

Despite the call for a moratorium, some countries have been arguing for booster jabs not only for vulnerable people but also for the wider population, citing signs of waning vaccine effectiveness against the highly transmissive Delta variant.

The WHO has acknowledged that an additional dose could be needed for immunocompromised people, but stresses that for healthy people, the vaccines still seem very effective, especially in preventing severe disease.

"There is not a compelling case to move forward with a generalised recommendation for booster doses," Kate O'Brien, the WHO's vaccines chief, told Wednesday's news conference.

The UN health agency has set a global target of seeing every country vaccinate at least 10% of its population by the end of this month, and at least 40% by the end of this year.

It wants to see at least 70% of the world's population vaccinated by the middle of next year.

But Tedros lamented that while 90% of wealthy countries have hit the 10-percent mark, and more than 70% have already reached 40-percent, "not a single low-income country has reached either target".

He expressed outrage at a statement by a pharmaceutical industry organisation that the world's seven wealthiest nations, known as the G7, now had enough vaccines for all adults and teenagers — and to offer boosters to at-risk groups — and so the focus should shift to dose sharing.

"When I read this, I was appalled," he said.

"In reality, manufacturers and high-income countries have long had the capacity to not only vaccinate their own priority groups, but to simultaneously support the vaccination of those same groups in all countries."

 

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More than 5.64 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, equal to 73 doses for every 100 people. There is already a stark gap between vaccination programs in different countries,

 

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US to invest $3 bn in Covid-19 vaccine supply chain: White House official

Funding will focus on manufacturers of inputs used in vaccine production, facilities that package vaccine vials


Reuters

The US plans to invest $3 billion in the vaccine supply chain as it continues to work to position itself as a leading supplier of vaccines for the world, a top US health official said on Thursday.
The funding, which will begin to be distributed in the coming weeks, will focus on manufacturers of the inputs used in Covid vaccine production as well as facilities that fill and package vaccine vials, White House Covid adviser Jeffrey Zients said during a news conference.

"The investments we are making, the $3 billion, are in US companies that will expand their capacity for critical supplies," Zients said.

He added that areas of focus will include lipids, bioreactor bags, tubing, needles, syringes, and personal protective equipment. The White House has not yet selected specific companies to receive the funds.

US demand for Covid vaccines remains high as the White House prepares to begin offering a third booster shot to Americans later this month, pending a regulator greenlight. The United States also plans to give hundreds of millions of shots to other countries during the remainder of the year.

Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci added that he would not be surprised if a third dose became standard for Covid vaccines that originally were expected to require two shots.
US cases of Covid have surged to a seven-day average of more than 150,000 per day, up from less than 10,000 in June, according to federal data, as the contagious new Delta variant continues to circulate.

The daily average of Covid deaths has risen this week to more than 950 from around 900 last week, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said.
Fauci downplayed concerns about a new Covid variant known as Mu, or B.1.621, that some scientists are concerned could be resistant to vaccines.

"Even when you have variants that do diminish somewhat the efficacy of vaccines, the vaccines still are quite effective against variants of that type," Fauci said.

 

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The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 5.69 billion doses have been administered across 184 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 33.5 million doses a day.

In the U.S., 379 million doses have been given so far. In the last week, an average of 711,899 doses per day were administered.

 

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PARIS: The novel coronavirus has killed at least 4,622,410 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1000 GMT on Sunday.

At least 224,207,440 cases of coronavirus have been registered.

The vast majority have recovered, though some have continued to experience symptoms weeks or even months later.

The figures are based on daily reports provided by health authorities in each country.

They exclude revisions made by other statistical organisations, which show that the number of deaths is much higher.

The World Health Organization estimates that the pandemic's overall toll could be two to three times higher than official records, due to the excess mortality that is directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19.

A large number of the less severe or asymptomatic cases also remain undetected, despite intensified testing in many countries.

On Saturday, 10,019 new deaths and 541,533 new cases were recorded worldwide.

Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new deaths were the United States with 2,834, followed by Russia with 788 and Brazil with 712.

The United States is the worst-affected country with 659,694 deaths from 40,921,491 cases.

After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 586,558 deaths from 20,989,164 cases, India with 442,655 deaths from 33,236,921 cases, Mexico with 267,524 deaths from 3,506,743 cases, and Peru with 198,728 deaths from 2,160,327 cases.

The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population is Peru with 603 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Hungary with 311, Bosnia-Herzegovina with 305, the Republic of North Macedonia with 299, Montenegro with 286 and the Czech Republic with 284.

Latin America and the Caribbean overall has 1,460,832 deaths from 43,925,215 cases, Europe 1,272,536 deaths from 64,925,551 infections, and Asia 808,203 deaths from 51,930,608 cases.

The United States and Canada has reported 686,882 deaths from 42,461,461 cases, Africa 202,503 deaths from 8,034,520 cases, the Middle East 189,612 deaths from 12,787,329 cases, and Oceania 1,842 deaths from 142,763 cases.

As a result of corrections by national authorities or late publication of data, the figures updated over the past 24 hours may not correspond exactly to the previous day's tallies.

 

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The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 5.71 billion doses have been administered across 184 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 34.1 million doses a day.

In the U.S., 380 million doses have been given so far. In the last week, an average of 750,118 doses per day were administered.

 

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The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 5.78 billion doses have been administered across 184 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 35 million doses a day.

In the U.S., 381 million doses have been given so far. In the last week, an average of 775,167 doses per day were administered.

 

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On Chinese vaccines distribution,

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Tracking China’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution - Bridge Consulting

Examining China's Promise to Make Its Vaccines A Global Public Good

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Are they not being used in China?? refer map.

 

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Pakistan Lastest Vaccine Stats:

We are moving at a good pace. Nearly 1 million people are getting administered on daily basis. Just that we need to pick up speed in second dose. There is a sgnificant gap in between the numbers of first and the second dose.