2 million people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in Qatar

Qatar Vaccination Campaign

Qatar's COVID-19 vaccination campaign has crossed a significant milestone as 2 million people have been fully vaccinated, the Hamad Medical Corporation announced on Tuesday.

Qatar is among the world's top performing countries for vaccination coverage of its population, according to Our World in Data vaccination tracker, which keeps track of the vaccination coverage of all countries on a daily basis.

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Qatar is ranked second in the world for the percentage of population that have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, among countries with a population of more than one million. It is ranked fifth in for the percentage of population that are fully vaccinated, among countries with a population of more than one million.

The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) on Sunday announced that 92.3 percent of Qatar's eligible population have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 80.6 percent received two doses. Most of the COVID-19 vaccines approved for use in Qatar have a two-dose regimen.

When it comes to the total population, 80.1 percent have received at least one dose and 69.9 percent received two doses, the ministry said.

As many as 20,381 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total doses given out so far to 4,252,387.