Vaccination against COVID-19: different rules for different countries

Get a ticket; the longest line in history is emerging across the planet for the largest vaccination operation ever orchestrated in human history. Here’s how we organize ourselves at home and elsewhere.

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Canada

December 14

End of preparations receive the first few doses of the Pfizer vaccine, which require high-performance freezers.

BETWEEN 10TH AND 29TH DECEMBER

Planned approval of Pfizer BioNtech vaccine. The approval of Moderna’s vaccine should follow closely.

6 million: Number of doses that will gradually come after approval e within March.

358 million: Number of pre-ordered doses of seven companies.

SEPTEMBER 2021

Most Canadians should be vaccinated.

UK

MONDAY

Start of vaccination

AVRIL 2021

Expected date where everyone will have received the vaccine.

1250: Number of designated clinics

355 million: Number of pre-ordered doses of seven companies

VACCINATION ORDER

By the end of December: 70 and more, frontline health professionals and long-term care facility staff

Early January: 65 to 70

Mid January: 50 to 65

At the end of January : From 18 to 50 years old

Russia

NEXT WEEK

Start of vaccination

100 000

Number of Russians already vaccinated, to begin with by the soldiers.

40000

Number of volunteers participating in the trials of the vaccine, Sputnik V, produced by Russia. The country started administering it in November, without waiting for the outcome of all clinical trials whose final stages have not yet been completed.

United States

800 MILLION

Number of doses pre-ordered by five companies.

24 hours

Delayed vaccination after the first vaccines were approved.

20 MILLION

Number of people vaccinated as of this month.

30 MILLION

Number of people vaccinated thereafter per month

France

FIVE PLANNED VACCINATION STAGES

1. Elderly people residing in shelters or collective housing and the medical-social sector staff who work with people aged 65 or over or with comorbidities

2.75 years and over, therefore from 65 to 74 yearsand medical-social sector personnel working with people aged 50 or over

3. Under 65 with one or more comorbidities, personnel from the medical-social sector not involved in the first two phases, personnel from the essential sectors (safety, education)

4. Other professionals exposed to the virus and vulnerable people

5. 18 years and more