BRUSSELS — Two hundred million Europeans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or more than half the adult population, the European Commission has said.

The Commission has set a target of having 70 percent of adult EU citizens vaccinated this summer. Some 200 million people have now had both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

European Commission spokeswoman Dana Spinant said at a press briefing on Thursday 54.7 percent of all EU adults were fully inoculated.

Earlier this week the EU surpassed the United States in the proportion of people who had received at least one jab, with some 81 doses of vaccine now administered per 100 people across the bloc.

The disparities in uptake in different countries are high, though. The Netherlands and Finland have fully vaccinated more than 82 and 78 percent of adults respectively.

But just 31 percent of people have had both jabs in Romania, while in Bulgaria, less than 20 percent of people have even received the first dose. — Euronews