The pace of vaccination in India has dropped and regional officials there say they have limited amounts of vaccines.

The pace of vaccination in India has dropped and regional officials there say they have limited amounts of vaccines to administer, even as the country grapples with a surge in coronavirus cases and complaints of oxygen shortages at hospitals.

The United States said earlier last week that it would support efforts to waive some intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines to allow more countries to produce more of them, but officials said it would not have an immediate impact on global supplies, and drug makers have opposed lifting patent protections.

vaccinations has been slowing from its peak on April 10 of 4.6 million daily shots.

â–ºPakistan on Saturday received its first supply of COVID-19 vaccines through the U.N.-backed COVAX initiative, over 1.2 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

has more than 32.6 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 581,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data

The global totals: Over 157 million cases and 3.2 million deaths

More than 329 million vaccine doses have been distributed in the U.S

More than 112.6 million Americans have been fully vaccinated – 33.9% of the population