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COVID-19 vaccines were administered to 10,982 persons on Sunday and 78.71% of the country’s population has received at least one vaccine dose.
According to Our World in Data, second dose coverage reached 66.08% of the total population on 5 March.
The Epidemiology Unit states that 16,928,363 persons have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 14,208,755 persons have received the second dose as well.
The third dose has been administered to 7,317,106 persons. This includes 8,856 persons vaccinated on Sunday. According to the Epidemiology Unit, 325 persons received the first dose of Pfizer on Sunday, raising the total number of persons to have received the first dose of the vaccine to 2,459,695. The second dose of Pfizer has been administered to 744,203 persons, including 927 persons vaccinated on Sunday. The first dose of Sinopharm was administered to 294 persons on Sunday and the second dose was administered to 580 persons. In total, the first dose of Sinopharm has been administered to 12,025,126 persons and the second dose has been administered to 11,102,786 persons. The first dose of AstraZeneca has been administered to 1,479,631 persons and the second dose has been administered to 1,418,593 persons.
A total of 804,801 persons have received the first dose of Moderna and 787,361 persons have received the second dose as well.
The Epidemiology Unit states that the first dose of Sputnik V has been administered to 159,110 persons and 155,812 persons have received the second dose of the vaccine.