Washington: The number of the worldwide administered doses of vaccines against the Coronavirus has surpassed 8 billion, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) said.

The total number of administered doses currently stands at 8,036,182,904. The World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 263.41 million people have been infected with the Coronavirus worldwide, with over 5.22 million fatalities, according to JHU.