70,917 persons vaccinated against COVID-19

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COVID-19 vaccines were administered to 70,917 persons on Monday and close to 40% of the population over 20 years has received all three vaccine doses.

According to the Epidemiology Unit, 16,794,917 persons have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 14,021,430 persons have received the second dose. The third dose has been administered to 5,841,518 persons.

Second dose coverage among the population over 20 years is 95.2% while third dose coverage is 39.2%.

Our World in Data states that 78.09% of the total population had received the first dose as of 6 February and 65.19% had received the second dose as well.

On Monday, 59,202 persons received the booster dose, for which the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is being used.

The Epidemiology Unit states that 5,313 persons received the first dose of Pfizer on Monday and 4,859 persons received the second dose of the vaccine. The first dose of Pfizer has been administered to a total of 2,353,477 persons and the second dose has been administered to 604,468 persons.

On Monday, 599 persons received the first dose of Sinopharm and 944 persons received the second dose of the vaccine. In total, the first dose of Sinopharm has been administered to 11,997,898 persons and the second dose has been administered to 11,055,196 persons.

The first dose of AstraZeneca has been administered to 1,479,631 persons and 1,418,593 persons have received the second dose of the vaccine.

The Epidemiology Unit states that 804,801 persons have received the first dose of Moderna and 787,361 persons have received the second dose of the vaccine.

The first dose of Sputnik V has been administered to 159,110 persons and the second dose has been administered to 155,812 persons.

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