{"id":8,"date":"2021-03-16T17:48:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201-winter-2021\/?p=8"},"modified":"2021-03-16T17:48:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:48:24","slug":"global-covid-19-vaccination-leaders-and-laggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201-winter-2021\/2021\/03\/16\/global-covid-19-vaccination-leaders-and-laggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Global COVID-19 Vaccination Leaders and Laggers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Stephanie Leonardelli<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

India achieved its highest number of vaccinations on a single day, administering over three million COVID-19 vaccines this Monday. In what is regarded as one of the world\u2019s largest inoculation drives, India has jabbed more than 30 million people with at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine to date. Accounting for as much as 62 per cent of global vaccine production, India is deemed a global pharmaceutical powerhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India has quietly pursued \u201cvaccine diplomacy\u201d at a time where international cooperation in sharing vaccines is limited. Its Vaccine Friendship campaign has shipped hundreds of thousands of Indian-made Covishield vaccines, manufactured under license from Oxford-AstraZeneca to some 60 countries, says Channel News Asia<\/a>. They have also offered 1.1 billion vaccine doses to the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) COVAX program to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to poorer countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Health workers pose with a vial of COVID-19 vaccine after receiving their shots at a hospital in India. (Vinay Panjwani\/UNICEF)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As remarkable as these statistics are, India is not the leader in doses administered worldwide relatively speaking. The Our World in Data project<\/a> driven by Oxford University updates their data each morning with the official numbers of global vaccinations by country per 100 people. Today, the data revealed that only two per cent of the entire population of India has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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