No, it is no longer Israel, nor England, which are also proceeding at a rapid pace. The surprise is that now, according to data processed by the University of Oxford in the Our World in Data programme, the fastest country to vaccinate its citizens is Chile, with an average of 1,08 daily doses per 100 inhabitants inoculated in the last 7 days, against 1,03 in Israel. The South American country is in full acceleration, so much so that on Monday 8 March, the latest data available, it administered 1,67 doses per 100 inhabitants, against 1,20 for the Middle Eastern country in a single day. In Chile, which has about 19,5 million inhabitants, 4.176.094 people have already been vaccinated, equal to over 21% of the total population.
Of these over 4 million, 772.389 people have completed the vaccination program, having already received both doses. As for the over 60s, in South America's third largest economy, 2.653.488 doses are administered to people in this age group, considered the most at risk. And all the others should have no problem receiving the anti-Covid vaccine in a reasonable time, given that Chile was also one of the most able and quickest countries to negotiate the purchase of doses: A total of 35 million were bought (most of which from the Chinese Sinovac), of which 10 million have already arrived.
The "Chile miracle", health minister Enrique Paris Mancilla explained to Clarin, was made possible "above all thanks to the full availability of health personnel and the mass participation of citizens", two factors that are not occurring precisely in all European countries. The capillary distribution was not taken for granted in a country like Chile, which is over 4.200 km long from north to south but which it relies on a well-organized territorial health network. However, even in the South American country the epidemic continues to spread at the moment: on Tuesday 9 March there were 3.528 new cases (with 19 deaths), however down from the peaks of over 5.000 daily cases a few days ago.
The total number of people diagnosed with Covid has reached 864.064, of which 28.317 are currently positive. The total dead are over 21.000.
