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U.S. administers 107.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC – Metro US

U.S. administers 107.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC

People receive their coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines at a mass
People receive their coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines at a mass vaccination site at Lumen Field Event Center in Seattle

(Reuters) – The United States has administered 107,060,274 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country and distributed 135,847,835 doses as of Sunday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The tally is for Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines as of 6 a.m. ET (1000 GMT) on Sunday, the agency said.

According to the tally posted on March 13, the agency had administered 105,703,501 doses of the vaccines and distributed 135,846,665 doses.

The agency said 69,784,210 people had received at least one dose, while 37,459,269 people were fully vaccinated.

A total of 7,547,477 vaccine doses have been administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.

(Reporting by Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)