91.37%: UAE tops world in COVID-19 vaccinations

The Emirates has pulled out all the stops to roll out vaccines for citizens and residents

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Jay Hilotin, Senior Assistant Editor
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91.37% UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: It’s the biggest vaccination campaign in history, and it’s currently underway. The UAE has topped the world in terms of vaccinations, according to Our World In Data. As of September 21, 2021, the Emirates had posted 91% share of people partly vaccinated against COVID-19, with 80.78% fully vaccinated. The UAE also leads in COVID-19 vaccines doses administered per 100 peopple, at 195.67, as of September 21, 2021. On Wednesday (September 22, 2021), the UAE announced the easing of mask mandates in certain places. https://gn24.ae/c5a6fccca37a000
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87.56% PORTUGAL: Portugal has eased restrictions since August 21, 2021 as COVID-19 vaccination rate has gone up. As of September 21, the country has recreded 88% of it people received at least 1 dose, with 84.19% now fully vaccinated.
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81% QATAR: The country has recorded 75.7% fully vaccinated, with 4.85% now fully vaccinated, according to Our World in Data, a scientific online publication that publishes country-by-country data and research on the pandemic.
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80.16% SPAIN: The country has recorded 77.2% fully vaccinated, with 2.96% now fully vaccinated. Globally, more than 6 billion doses have been administered—enough to fully vaccinate 39.1% of the global population.
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79.12% SINGAPORE: The island nation has reported that 77.24% of its population had been fully vaccinated, and 1.88% partly vaccinated, for a total of 79.12% as of September 20, 2021.
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78.10% URUGUAY: The country has recorded 73.48% fully vaccinated, with 4.62% now fully vaccinated. It’s the biggest vaccination campaign in history, and it’s currently underway.
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76.58% CHILE: The country has recorded 72.99% fully vaccinated, with 3.59% now fully vaccinated. The latest daily rate for global vaccinations is roughly 33.5 million doses a day.
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76.46% DENMARK: The country has recorded 74.65% fully vaccinated, with 1.81% now fully vaccinated.
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76.22% CHINA: The country has recorded 70.78% fully vaccinated, with 5.44% now fully vaccinated.
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75.6% CANADA: The country has recorded 69.62% fully vaccinated, with 6.05% now fully vaccinated.
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75% IRELAND: The country has recorded 75.7% fully vaccinated, with 4.85% now fully vaccinated.
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73.99 FINLAND: The country has recorded 58.98% fully vaccinated, with 15.01% now fully vaccinated.
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74.57% NORWAY: The country has recorded 65.13% fully vaccinated, with 9.44% now fully vaccinated.
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73.63% ITALY: The country has recorded 66.15% fully vaccinated, with 7.48% now fully vaccinated.
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73.57% FRANCE: The country has recorded 63.71% fully vaccinated, with 9.86% now fully vaccinated.
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71.28% UK: The country has recorded 65.26% fully vaccinated, with 6.02% now fully vaccinated.
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69.10% ISRAEL: The country has recorded 63.64% fully vaccinated, with 5.46% now fully vaccinated. While the best vaccines are highly effective at preventing hospitalisation and death, it takes a coordinated campaign to stop a pandemic.
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68.57% BRAZIL: The country has recorded 37.97% fully vaccinated, with 30.60% now fully vaccinated. Infectious-disease experts say that vaccinating 70% to 85% would enable a return to normalcy. On a global scale, that’s a daunting level of vaccination.
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67.54% JAPAN: The country has recorded 55.40% fully vaccinated, with 12.14% now fully vaccinated. At the current pace of 33.5 million shots administered per day across the world, the goal of high levels of global immunity remains a long way off.
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67.43% MALAYSIA: The country has recorded 56.90% fully vaccinated, with 10.53% now fully vaccinated. Globally, vaccine manufacturing capacity, is steadily increasing, and new vaccines by additional manufacturers are coming to market.
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66.76% GERMANY: The country has recorded 62.84% fully vaccinated, with 3.92% now fully vaccinated. Globally, the latest vaccination rate is 33,521,925 doses per day, on average. At this pace, it will take another 5 months to cover 75% of the population.
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66.44% BAHRAIN: The country has recorded 63.29% fully vaccinated, with 3.15% now fully vaccinated.
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66.36% EUROPEAN UNION: The country has recorded 61.53% fully vaccinated, with 4.83% now fully vaccinated.
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65.53% SAUDI ARABIA: The country has recorded 50.97% fully vaccinated, with 14.56% now fully vaccinated.
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63.11% UNITED STATES: The country has recorded 54.12% fully vaccinated, with 8.99% now fully vaccinated. In the U.S., 387 million doses have been given so far. In the last week, an average of 764,423 doses per day were administered.
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