Covid-19NewsWorld WORLD: Over 200 million vaccine doses administered globally by Barbados Today 20/02/2021 written by Barbados Today Updated by Desmond Brown 20/02/2021 2 min read A+A- Reset Share FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail 194 SOURCE: AFP — More than 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in at least 107 countries and territories, according to an AFP count based on official sources Saturday. In total 201,042,149 doses had been given worldwide — a figure that does not include the latest data from China and Russia, who have stopped making their progress public in recent days. Some 45 per cent of the injections took places in countries belonging to the wealthy G7 club, whose members account for just 10 per cent of the global population. Its seven countries — the US, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan — promised Friday to share doses more fairly with worse-off countries. G7 leaders plan to more than double their total support to worldwide coronavirus vaccinations, to US$7.5 billion, including through the World Health Organization-led Covax scheme. More broadly, 92 per cent of doses worldwide have been given in countries classified by the World Bank as “high-income” or “upper-middle income”, accounting for around half of global population. You Might Be Interested In Crystal Beckles-Holder, 2nd runner up in regional competition Bangladesh opposition demand new vote Business owners disappointed Among the 29 countries the institution ranks as “low-income”, only Guinea and Rwanda have begun vaccinating. Israel is far ahead of any other country worldwide with almost half its population having received at least one vaccine dose. One in three Israelis has received both doses needed for full protection. Other countries to have given more than 10 per cent of their people at least one dose include Britain (25 per cent), Bahrain (16), the US (13), Chile (12), the Seychelles (43) and the Maldives (12). In absolute figures, the US has injected more people than any other nation, with 59.6 million doses. China had reached 40.5 million by February 9, while Britain is at 17.5 million, India 10.7 million and Israel 7.1 million. Barbados Today Stay informed and engaged with our digital news platform. The leading online multimedia news resource in Barbados for news you can trust. You may also like Meta is down: Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp all suffer major global outage 11/12/2024 Coffee price surges to highest on record 10/12/2024 China ready to go deeper into debt to counter Trump’s tariffs 10/12/2024