Posted on 01/02/21
| News Source: i24
In the United States, only 2.8 million Americans had received the first dose of their COVID-19 vaccine
The Israeli government on Saturday claimed that more than a million people have been vaccinated since the start of Jerusalem's inoculation drive on December 20.
As a result, the Jewish state has been leading the world in its vaccination efforts per capita, with Bahrain and the UK a distant second and third.
According to the Our World in Data website, Israel has vaccinated nearly 12% of its 9 million inhabitants, ahead of Bahrain with 3.49% and the United Kingdom at 1.47%.
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France had vaccinated 332 people in total as of Friday.
In the United States, only 2.8 million Americans had received the first dose of their COVID-19 vaccine, a far cry from the Trump administration's stated target of 20 million people vaccinated by the end of the year.
The United States has an estimated population of 328 million.
In India, a country with the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in the world behind the United States and Brazil, vaccination simulation tests were carried on Saturday as ii prepared to inoculate urs population of 1.3 billion.
New Delhi has set itself the ambitious goal of vaccinating up to 300 million people by mid-2021.
As early as December 19, Israel had launched its campaign after the US Food and Drug Administration gave pharmaceutical firm Pfizer the greenlight to begin distributing its coronavirus vaccine to countries across the world.