20 January 2021 - It has been described as a race between infections and injections. If so, infections are still winning. 

About 5 million new cases of COVID-19 a week are being recorded around the world. As we went to press, some 51 countries had begun to administer vaccines, according to Our World in Data, a website; over the previous week 17 million people had been vaccinated, but the global total of doses was still below 50 million. 

Only five countries had given the first dose to more than 5% of its population.

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