{"id":9494,"date":"2021-04-25T11:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T11:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=9494"},"modified":"2021-04-25T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T11:21:27","slug":"1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/04\/25\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab\/","title":{"rendered":"1 billion inoculated globally in 137 days since first jab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-node\">According to the tally compiled from official sources, at least 1,002,938,540 doses have been administered in 207 countries and territories \u2014 accounting for over 96% of the world with active vaccine campaigns. The unprecedented drive is seen as the world\u2019s ticket out of the virus disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-node\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9495\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab-rapidnews-dailyrapid.jpg\" alt=\"1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab-rapidnews-dailyrapid\" width=\"1600\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab-rapidnews-dailyrapid.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab-rapidnews-dailyrapid-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab-rapidnews-dailyrapid-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab-rapidnews-dailyrapid-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab-rapidnews-dailyrapid-1536x863.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-node\">With new variants sparking a worrying fresh spike of cases and uncertainty over the vaccines\u2019 effectiveness against them, the planet is now racing to inoculate as many people as possible. But it will take another 19 months to vaccinate 75% of the world\u2019s population at the current pace of 18.5 million shots a day. More than half, or 58%, have been given in three countries: the US with 225.6 million doses, China with 216.1 million doses and India with 138.4 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the tally compiled from official sources, at least 1,002,938,540 doses have been administered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>1 billion inoculated globally in 137 days since first jab | Rapid News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"According to the tally compiled from official sources, at least 1,002,938,540 doses have been administered in 207 countries and territories\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/04\/25\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1 billion inoculated globally in 137 days since first jab | Rapid News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to the tally compiled from official sources, at least 1,002,938,540 doses have been administered in 207 countries and territories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/04\/25\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rapid News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-25T11:21:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab-rapidnews-e1619349653190.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"466\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/\",\"name\":\"Rapid News\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/04\/25\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab-rapidnews-e1619349653190.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1-billion-inoculated-globally-in-137-days-since-first-jab-rapidnews-e1619349653190.jpg\",\"width\":700,\"height\":466,\"caption\":\"Indigenous nurse of the Misak ethnic group Anselmo Tunubala, 49, inoculates an elderly indigenous woman with a Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19 in the Guambia indigenous reservation, rural area of Silvia, department of Cauca, Colombia, on April 15, 2021. - Tunubala sweeps the mountains every day looking for elderly people from house to house, and explains them the importance of the vaccination against Covid-19 in their native language. 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