(Reuters) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 72,806,180 doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in the country on Saturday morning and that it had distributed 96,402,290 doses.
The bill is for both Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines starting at 6 a.m. ET on Saturday, the agency said. Both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines involve two doses.
The CDC reported a total of 70,454,064 doses of vaccine administered and 94,300,910 doses distributed on Friday.
The agency said that as of Saturday, 48,435,536 people had received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 23,698,627 had received the two doses.
A total of 7,043,540 doses of the vaccine were administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.
Report by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler