Cyprus[/B] is among the countries projected to meet the vaccination target for Covid - 19 of 70% of its population by mid-2022 set by the World Health Organization (WHO), while the US along with many countries in Europe, Asia and Africa are not on track to meet the target.
According to a report by US network CNBC, which cites estimates from Our World in Data, last revised last Tuesday, more than 100 countries are not on track to meet the target.
It notes that last October, the WHO set a target for countries to vaccinate 70 percent of their population by mid-2022.
Notably, some of the countries not projected to vaccinate 70 percent of their population by the middle of this year were Turkey, Estonia, Jamaica and Nigeria.
Fewer than 50 countries have already reached the 70% threshold, including Italy, Spain, Qatar, Portugal and Japan.
Cyprus, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Hong Kong were among those countries that have yet to exceed the 70% threshold, but appear to be on track to meet the WHO target by mid-2022.
The researchers acknowledge that their method does not take into account variables such as potential vaccine shortages, changes in vaccine delivery rates or new government policies.
According to CNBC, the "Our World in Data" projections use official data, with the current vaccination rate for each country calculated as the average number of people who received their second dose of vaccine in the past 14 days.
The researchers then assumed that these vaccination rates would remain stable until the WHO target of mid-2022.
"By adding this expected vaccination rate to the proportion of the population already fully vaccinated, we project the proportion of people who will be fully vaccinated by July 1, 2022," the researchers said."
"By adding this expected vaccination rate to the proportion of the population already fully vaccinated, we project the proportion of people who will be fully vaccinated by July 1, 2022," the researchers said. "We exclude from our projections countries that have not reported data for more than 30 days," they noted."
Source: CNA
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