Pandemic/Statistics/Vaccination Data
SARS-C0V-2 Pandemic Vaccination Data
July 2021
Equitable access to safe and effective vaccines is critical to ending the COVID-19 pandemic, so it is hugely encouraging to see so many vaccines proving and going into development. WHO is working tirelessly with partners to develop, manufacture and deploy safe and effective vaccines.
Safe and effective vaccines are a game-changing tool: but for the foreseeable future we must continue wearing masks, cleaning our hands, ensuring good ventilation indoors, physically distancing and avoiding crowds.
Being vaccinated does not mean that we can throw caution to the wind and put ourselves and others at risk, particularly because research is still ongoing into how much vaccines protect not only against disease but also against infection and transmission.
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But it’s not vaccines that will stop the pandemic, it’s vaccination. We must ensure fair and equitable access to vaccines, and ensure every country receives them and can roll them out to protect their people, starting with the most vulnerable.
Source: World Health Organisation[1]
Data Sources
Vaccination rates per population is reasonably accessible data because many countries have targets of 70 to 80% to achieve herd immunity and therefore publish the data so people can be encouraged by the progress.
The data sources below have collated statistics per country and presented it so we can see the global trends. Obviously, some countries are well ahead of others. Notably Australia is low on the scale, partly because our vaccine rollout started later but also due to supply issues. Australia and New Zealand have attempted to suppress the virus and consequently have had very low rates of community transmission. Countries like Italy needed vaccines more urgently. While first-world countries have extended vaccinations to younger people and children, who were not at great risk from the original coronavirus strain, other countries have struggled to get enough vaccine doses to curb rising death rates.
Several data sources are listed below. Most provide the information as bar graphs representing the proportion of people in each population who have been fully or partially vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2
- John Hopkins University Understanding Vaccination Progress (International Statistics)
- Our World in Data Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations
- Mainstream Media
Two of many examples are listed here:-
References
- ↑ World Health Organisation COVID-19 Vaccines (Retrieved 24 July 2021)
