FILE PHOTO: Safeway pharmacy manager Kel Fanny draws up a COVID-19 vaccine at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mass vaccination site at the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds in Ridgefield, Washington, U.S. January 27, 2021. REUTERS/Alisha Jucevic
(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had administered 44,769,970 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and delivered 65,972,575 doses.
The tally of vaccine doses are for both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, vaccines as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the agency said.
According to the tally posted on Tuesday, the agency had administered 43,206,190 doses of the vaccines, and delivered 62,898,775 doses.
The agency said 33,783,384 people had received 1 or more doses while 10,469,514 people have got the second dose as of Wednesday.
A total of 5,176,499 vaccine doses have been administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.
(Reporting by Vishwadha Chander in Bengaluru; Editing by Ramakrishnan M.)
