Most Unique Covid-19 Vaccination Centres Around the World

As countries around the world roll out mass Covid-19 vaccination programmes, large public spaces from ice rinks to cathedrals are being repurposed as makeshift inoculation hubs.
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Most Unique Covid-19 Vaccination Centres Around the World
Former TikTok studio turns into Covid vaccination centre. Photo: indiatoday

1. Former TikTok studio turns into Covid vaccination centre

A woman receives a dose of a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine at a temporary vaccination unit set up at a former TikTok studio in the MEGA Park mall in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The country is using domestically-developed QazCovid-in vaccine, also known as QazVac, Russian Sputnik V vaccine and Chinese-developed CoronaVac and Hayat-Vax vaccines against Covid-19, cited Reuters.

2. Filipinos get vaccinated against Covid-19 in cinema

Filipinos register to get vaccinated against Covid-19 in a cinema turned into a vaccination site in San Juan City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Most Unique Covid-19 Vaccination Centres Around the World
Filipinos get vaccinated against Covid-19 in cinema. Photo: indiatoday

3. Bangkok shopping mall offers jab

Most Unique Covid-19 Vaccination Centres Around the World
Bangkok shopping mall offers jab. Photo: indiatoday

A health worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to a woman at Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand.

Health authorities in Thailand began their much-anticipated mass rollout of locally produced AstraZeneca vaccine, but it appeared that supplies were falling short of demand from patients who had scheduled vaccinations, according to AP.

4. Buses converted into Covid vaccine centres

Most Unique Covid-19 Vaccination Centres Around the World
Buses converted into Covid vaccine centres. Photo: indiatoday

Employees of an assembly factory are seen reflected in the mirror of a bus as they receive a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

5. Covid-19 vaccination centre inside Salisbury Cathedral

Most Unique Covid-19 Vaccination Centres Around the World
Covid-19 vaccination centre inside Salisbury Cathedral. Photo: indiatoday

People wear protective masks at the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccination centre inside the Salisbury Cathedral, in Salisbury, Britain, cited Reuters.

6. Vaccination site at a museum

Most Unique Covid-19 Vaccination Centres Around the World
Vaccination site at a museum. Photo: EconomicTimes

A blue whale model with a bandaid on its fin hangs above a pop up vaccination site at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

7. Covid-19 vaccination inside a velodrome

Most Unique Covid-19 Vaccination Centres Around the World
Covid-19 vaccination inside a velodrome. Photo: EconomicTimes

A cycling French team member trains on a track as patients are being vaccinated with Moderna Covid-19 vaccine in the velodrome national used as a Covid-19 vaccination centre in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, southwest of Paris, reported Economic Times.

8. Free drink at a bar for taking vaccine shot

A woman receives a Covid vaccination as part of a Tel Aviv municipality initiative offering a free drink at a bar to residents getting the shot, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Most Unique Covid-19 Vaccination Centres Around the World
Taking vaccine shot at a bar in Israel. Photo: EconomicTimes

9. Vaccination service on the river

Marair Queiroz receives the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) from municipal health worker Neuda Sousa during a flood by the rising Solimoes river, one of the two main branches of the Amazon River, in Anama, Amazonas state, Brazil.

Most Unique Covid-19 Vaccination Centres Around the World
Vaccination service on the river. Photo: EconomicTimes

10. Covid-19 vaccination at an ice rink

This ice rink in Berlin, Germany, is another mass vaccination site. Photo: Reuters
This ice rink in Berlin, Germany, is another mass vaccination site. Photo: Reuters

Berlin's Erika-Hess ice stadium is among the first mass vaccine delivery sites to open in the German capital, with others planned at a velodrome and a disused airport.

Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World

More than 3.83 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, equal to 50 doses for every 100 people. There is already a stark gap between vaccination programs in different countries.

Photo: NYTimes
Photo: NYTimes

The data is compiled from government sources by the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford. Avaccinated person refers to someone who has received at least one dose of a vaccine, and a fully vaccinated person has received all required doses of a vaccine. For the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, a person who is “fully vaccinated” has received two doses.

While vaccine doses remain relatively scarce globally, most countries have focused their early vaccination efforts on priority groups like the clinically vulnerable; people in their 60s, 70s and older; and front-line workers, like doctors and nurses, cited NewYorkTimes.

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