Spain has been given 23 million doses of the two approved vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, which are expected to immunize 11 million people; However, the vaccination rate in our country, one of the most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, it is slow compared to Israel or the UAE.
According to the latest data published on our website Our World in Data, owned by the University of Oxford, Israel has already vaccinated 25% of its population; a much higher figure than other countries such as Mexico, France or China. In the case of the United Arab Emirates, which ranks second in this ranking, the vaccination rate is 15%.
Israel’s staggering number of two million vaccinated citizens has not gone unnoticed by experts. Among the reasons that put the country at the forefront of the vaccination race are mainly a solid health system, one of the best in the world according to studies by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is a mixed system in which the state subsidizes part of the health care to Israelis, who are required to register with one of the four health care providers (called HMOs).
Digitization and preventive medicine
off digitization and investments in preventive medicine These are some of the features of this health system that have allowed Israel to achieve a good vaccination rate, but they are not the only ones: the country’s government has launched an awareness campaign among the population a few weeks before starting the administration of doses. . In fact, the prime minister ofIsrael, Benjamin Netanyahu became the first Israeli to receive the vaccine on December 19. “I asked to be the first to set a personal example and encourage everyone to get vaccinated,” he told reporters.
In turn, United Arab Emirates (UAE)became the first Arab country to start the vaccination campaign. As elsewhere, priority is given to people over the age of 60, the chronically ill and health workers.
In this case, the extensive deployment of vaccination of its population, with large spaces allowed for example in the city of Dubai, allowed the country to be ranked second. Also, the fact that residents of the capital, Abu Dhabi, began receiving doses of Sinopharm vaccine in early December, with an effectiveness of 86%.
The United States, among the first positions
Although the vaccination campaign in US started at a much slower pace than expected, the country has recovered in recent days and has already administered the coronavirus drug to 3.4% of its population, ranking only fifth behind Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and the United Kingdom.
France, on the opposite side
Among the last positions of this classification are France. The neighboring country vaccinated only 0.49% of its population, which provoked numerous criticisms of the Government of Emmanuel Macron and especially of the Minister of Health, Oliver Véran. “At this rate, we will still be here for 5,000 years from now,” said former director general of health William Dab about current vaccination figures. Despite all this, the French Executive maintains its goal immunize 26 million citizens before the summer.
In Spain, despite the fact that the vaccination campaign did not follow the expected pace, an additional step was taken on Friday to advance the immunization of the population. In total, 676,186 doses were administered, 59.3% of those received. According to Our World in Data, 1.45% of Spaniards have already been vaccinated, and our country is in sixth place after Italy and the other countries mentioned above.