BRUSSELS, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Belgium started its COVID-19 vaccination campaign a year ago, on Dec. 28, 2020, and since then over 77 percent of the country's population have been fully vaccinated, the Sciensano public health institute said here on Wednesday.
Since day one of the vaccination drive, 21,368,984 vaccine doses have been administered and logged in the country's Vaccinnet database. According to Sciensano, 8,792,678 people (2,074,599 of them aged 65 and over) have already been fully vaccinated.
At 81 percent, the vaccination rate is highest in Belgium's Flanders region, followed by Wallonia with 72 percent and the Brussels Region with 60 percent.
Currently, the Omicron coronavirus variant accounts for 60 percent of new infections across the country, microbiologist Emmanuel Andre at Catholic University (KU) Leuven, said on Twitter on Monday.
Belgium has recorded 2,062,838 infections and 28,250 COVID-19-related deaths since the start of the pandemic. Enditem