The state Department of Public Health reported Saturday that the number of coronavirus vaccines administered in Massachusetts rose 88,032 to 5,009,612.
The number of new vaccinations was greater than on Friday, when 86,934 were reported.
The Baker government also announced that more than 2 million people had been completely vaccinated against the coronavirus since Saturday.
The Department of Public Health has so far accounted for 86.1 percent of the 5,821,640 doses sent to providers in the state.
The total shots given included 3,007,861 first shots and 1,800,094 second shots. Those who had their second admission of the currently approved two-dose vaccinations is considered fully vaccinated. The state reported a total of 201,657 people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The Baker administration reported the vaccine news in a Twitter message early Saturday afternoon and thanked health workers in the post.
The number of people who were fully vaccinated – with two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson – rose to 2,001,751.
People are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 two weeks after receiving a single shot of the one-dose vaccine or both doses of the two shots, according to the US Centers for Disease Control.
The department also reported 1,694 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing the state’s total to 630,206. It also reported ten new confirmed coronavirus deaths, bringing the total of the state to 17,110.
The DPH said 34,682 people were expected to have active cases of the potentially deadly virus, and that 693 confirmed that coronavirus patients were in hospital.
The DPH also reported that another 97,742 tests for coronavirus had been done. The total number of tests administered increased to more than 20.3 million. New antigen tests have been completed for 4,518 people, bringing the total to 702,597.
The DPH reported that the average rate of seven days of positive tests, calculated from the total number of tests administered, was 2.15 percent.
The department said the rate would be 3.67 percent if the effect of college testing programs – in which asymptomatic people can be tested repeatedly – are taken into account to quickly identify new cases.
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