Canada now among top countries for 1st doses of COVID-19 vaccines. So how high can we go? – CBC
58 per cent of Canadians have been vaccinated with at least one dose, but next steps could get harder
Jun 03, 2021
After lagging behind other countries in the early months of vaccination, Canada is now among the leaders when it comes to the percentage of the population vaccinated against COVID-19 with at least one dose.
So far, Canada has vaccinated 58 per cent of the total population with at least one dose, putting the country just behind Israel, which has plateaued at around 63 per cent of its population, and roughly neck-and-neck with the U.K.
That means Canada is among the highest ranks of other large countries, and not far behind the global front-runner for first dose — an island nation in the Indian Ocean.
Seychelles has already hit more than 70 per cent of the country being vaccinated — though it’s worth noting that country only has a population of around 97,000. It primarily used the Sinopharm vaccine developed in China, which hasn’t been approved for use in Canada.
