Six EU states overtake UK Covid vaccination rates as Britain’s rollout slows
by Jon Henley Europe correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5N1B3)
Malta, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Ireland overtake UK in fully jabbed percentages
Six EU states have now fully inoculated a larger share of their total populations with a coronavirus vaccine than the UK, after the bloc's dire initial rollout took off while Britain's impressive early jab rate has slumped.
According to government and health service figures collated by the online science publication Our World In Data, Malta, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Ireland have all overtaken the UK in terms of the percentages of their populations who are fully vaccinated.
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