Portugal is currently the country in the world with the highest population coverage rate with complete vaccination against Covid-19, according to the statistics website Our World in Data.
The country has surpassed Malta in recent days and registers 81.54% of the population with complete vaccination against the infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, while Malta has 80.95% of the population fully immunised against Covid-19. In third place in the world ranking comes the United Arab Emirates, with 78.80%.
However, if the population data with the immunisation process still incomplete are included, Portugal drops to the second position in the world, with 5.40% of the population still to complete the vaccination, increasing the total vaccination coverage (first and second doses) for 86.94%.
In first place are the United Arab Emirates, which, in addition to the 78.80% of the population fully protected in relation to Covid-19, still have 11.09% of its inhabitants with an incomplete vaccination process, which makes a total of vaccination coverage of 89.89%. Malta is in this record the third country in the world, with a total population with first and second doses of 81.11%.
According to the weekly vaccination report of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS), 80% of the Portuguese population, the equivalent of more than 8.2 million people, has already completed the vaccination process against the virus SARS-CoV-2 and 85 %, more than 8.8 million, already have the first dose of the vaccine.
The 'task force' that coordinates the logistics of vaccination estimates reaching the goal of 85% of the Portuguese population with complete vaccination by the end of this month.
