FILE PHOTO: Rigoberto Bojorquez, 76, receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination, at East Valley Community Health Center in La Puente, California, U.S., March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
(Reuters) – The United States has administered 93,692,598 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Tuesday morning and distributed 123,232,775 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
The tally is for Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, the agency said.
According to the tally posted on March 8, the agency had administered 92,089,852 doses of the vaccines, and distributed 116,378,615 doses.
A total of 7,419,240 vaccine doses have been administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.
(Reporting by Trisha Roy in Bengaluru)
