(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it administered 4,225,756 first-dose COVID-19 vaccines across the country on Saturday morning and distributed 13,071,925 doses.
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The agency says the count of the vaccine doses distributed and the number of people who received the first dose is for both Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech.
According to the version published on December 30, the agency administered 2,794,588 first doses of the vaccines and distributed 12,409,050 doses.
A total of 2,217,025 doses of vaccines were distributed for use at long-term care facilities and 282,740 people in the facilities received their first dose, the agency said.
The agency also reported 20,061,818 cases of new coronavirus, an increase of 168,637 cases from the previous count, and said the number of deaths had risen by 2,428 to 346,925.
The CDC reported its version of the cases of respiratory disorder known as COVID-19, caused by a new coronavirus, from Friday 16:00 ET compared to the previous report published on 31 December.
The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.
(Reported by Manojna Maddipatla and Nandakumar D in Bengaluru; edited by David Gregorio)
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