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(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it administered 4,225,756 first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country on Saturday morning and distributed 13,071,925 doses.
The count of vaccine doses distributed and the number of people who received the first dose are for both Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, vaccines as of 9 a.m. ET on Saturday, the agency said.
According to the count posted on December 30, the agency had administered 2,794,588 first doses of vaccines and distributed 12,409,050 doses.
A total of 2,217,025 doses of the vaccine were distributed for use in long-term care facilities and 282,740 people in facilities received their first dose, the agency said.
The agency also reported 20,061,818 cases of the novel coronavirus, an increase of 168,637 cases from its previous tally, and said the number of deaths increased from 2,428 to 346,925.
The CDC reported its tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a novel coronavirus, at 4 p.m. ET on Friday compared to its previous report released on December 31. Https://bit.ly/2X1Zu8v
CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.
(Reporting by Manojna Maddipatla and Nandakumar D in Bengaluru; Editing by David Gregorio)
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