The number of vaccinations worldwide exceeded the cumulative number of confirmed cases.

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[아시아경제 조현의 기자] The number of corona 19 vaccinations around the world has exceeded the cumulative number of corona 19 confirmed cases.

According to’Our World in Data’, an international statistics site on the 5th, the number of corona 19 vaccinations in more than 70 countries that are receiving the corona 19 vaccine was 173,447,447, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases around the world was 153,312,07. More than

Israel (58.6 cases per 100 people) has the highest number of vaccinations in the world, according to the New York Times. The United Arab Emirates (37.0 cases), Seychelles Islands (31.9 cases), the United Kingdom (15.8 cases), Bahrain (11.2 cases), and the United States (10.2 cases) were followed.

Richard Hachet of the Infectious Diseases Innovation Association (CEPI) said at an event hosted by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina on the 3rd (local time), “The number of corona 19 vaccines vaccinated exceeded the cumulative number of corona 19 confirmed patients.” “We will distribute 565 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine worldwide.”

CEPI, together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Vaccine Immunization Association (Gavi), is leading COVAX, an international project for joint purchasing and equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Kovacs plans to deliver 335 million batches, equivalent to 3.3% of the world’s population, to 145 countries by the first half of this year. Of this, Korea will receive 27,13,800 copies.

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