Here’s a List of Coronavirus Vaccines Ordered by Different Countries So Far

Following the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Wuhan, China, in December last year, it was thought that a vaccine would take years to develop.

However, it took less than a year for the first effective vaccine to be delivered and initiate the vaccination campaign from the UK.

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In April this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that there were more than 70 Coronavirus vaccine candidates under development or clinical trials around the globe.

While a handful of these candidates have been proven effective after final stage clinical trials till now, a number of countries had pre-ordered these vaccines in bulk before any clinical trial took place.

Let’s take a closer look at how many doses of effective Coronavirus vaccines have been pre-ordered.

Company name	Doses
Oxford/AstraZeneca	3.29 billion
Novavax	1.38 billion
Pfizer/BioNTech	1.28 billion
Johnson & Johnson	1.27 billion
Sanofi/GSK	1.23 billion
Moderna	780 million
Curevac	410 million
Sputnik-V	340 million
Sinovac	260 million
COVAXX	140 million

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Most of these doses have been pre-ordered by either the rich nations or countries adversely affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Here’s is a list of the countries/regions that have pre-ordered the most doses so far.

Country name	Doses
United States	700 million
European Union	700 million
India	500 million
Japan	290 million
United Kingdom	145 million
Brazil	100 million
Indonesia	100 million
China	100 million
Canada	96 million
Australia	43 million

More than 700 million doses of Coronavirus vaccines have been ordered by COVAX as well.

COVAX is a joint fund for equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines led by GAVI, a Geneva-based public-private global health alliance for low-income countries.

Pakistan is also in talks with eight different pharmaceutical companies to procure the vaccines for Coronavirus. The country also successfully submitted the request for the Coronavirus vaccine to COVAX earlier this month.