India, China and US account for 60% of vaccine doses administered globally

More than 2 billion doses of vaccines have been administered globally in nearly six months to fight the Covid-19. This number is against the estimated requirement of nearly 11 billion doses.

More than 2 billion doses of vaccines have been administered globally in nearly six months to fight the Covid-19. This number is against the estimated requirement of nearly 11 billion doses. To attain some sort of herd immunity against coronavirus, it is estimated that 70 per cent of the world’s population needs to be vaccinated.As per the data, it can be noted that the pace of the global vaccination drive has been decent, taking into consideration the challenges faced by the countries across the globe. But has the vaccine distribution been equitable across countries? In terms of percentage coverage of the population, rich countries have had an upper hand by some margin. And in terms of total number of doses administered, only a few countries account for bulk of what has been distributed .