Covid-19: Chile becomes one of the champions of vaccination
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Vaccination in Santiago, Chile, February 3, 2021 © IVAN ALVARADO-REUTERS
By: Justine Fontaine Follow
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Chile could become the first emerging country in the world to immunize its population against the coronavirus.
There, mass vaccination began two weeks ago, and more than 2.4 million people out of 19 million people have already received at least one dose of the vaccine.
The country thus vaccinates faster, in proportion to its population, than any European country or the United States.
Only Israel and the United Arab Emirates do better.
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How to explain such a success so far, when the authorities had been very criticized for their management of the pandemic last year?
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