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U.S. administers 331.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC – Metro US

U.S. administers 331.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC

FILE PHOTO: Vaccination center in California
FILE PHOTO: Vaccination center in California

(Reuters) – The United States has administered 331,651,464 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Those figures are up from the 331,214,347 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by July 6.

The agency said 182,896,080 people had received at least one dose while 157,908,171 people are fully vaccinated as of Wednesday.

The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, as well as Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Dania Nadeem in Bengaluru)