More than 1.5 billion doses of COVID vaccines have been injected around the world, data collected by the AFP showed.

As of Tuesday at 1530 GMT, at least 1,500,017,337 doses had been injected in over 200 countries or territories. Nearly three fifths of the total have been administered in three countries: China (421.9 million), the United States (274.4 million) and India (184.4 million), according to the tally based on official sources.