Saudi Arabia, Second after China in recovering from Covid-19

Saudi Arabia, Second after China in recovering from Covid-19
Sunday 19 September 2021 - 21:30

Saudi Arabia ranked second globally in the Nikkei Index for recovery from the Covid 19 pandemic among 121 countries evaluated within the index to measure the ability to deal with injuries progress in immunizations and the return of activities, while China ranked first in terms of recovering from Covid-19 .

This classification came according to the Japanese Nikkei index which is based on a decrease in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection an increase in vaccination rates and less strict physical distancing measures.

On December 17 last year Saudi Arabia launched the first phase of receiving the vaccine While the second phase was launched on February 18 which saw the expansion of the vaccination process in all regions.

The Saudi Ministry of Health had previously announced the number of the population vaccinated with two doses against COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia, as the number of the population vaccinated with two doses against Corona in Saudi Arabia reached half the population and also confirmed that the doses given from the vaccine reached 40,628,376 doses.

The Nikkei COVID-19 recovery index ranks more than 120 countries and regions in managing infection launching vaccines and returning to social activities at the end of each month.

The world population has received at least 3 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, of which 1.2 billion doses are only in China.

Israel has made the greatest progress in the vaccination campaign, with more than half of the population vaccinated with both doses.

The other top countries that have made significant progress in immunization are the United Kingdom with 43% of the population have received at least one dose, the UAE between 39 and 78 percent, Chile with 32 percent Bahrain 27 percent, the United States 26 percent and Serbia with 19 percent, Hungary with 19 percent, the Maldives 42 percent, and Malta 26 percent.

China ranked first in the world with 73 point ,since China has announced that it has vaccinated the equivalent of 72 percent of its 1.4 billion population.
As health authorities provided 2.16 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to their citizens, and succeeded in fully immunizing 1.01 billion people until the month of September.

As for Qatar, it is ranked fifth globally with 70 points, the UAE ranked eighth with 67 points, Bahrain is 14th with 64 points, and Jordan is 26th with 60.5 points.

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