(Reuters) – The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they administered 4,225,756 first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country on Saturday morning and distributed 13,071,925 doses.
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The count of vaccine doses distributed and the number of people who received the first dose are for Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, vaccines starting at 9:00 am ET on Saturday, the agency said.
According to the count released 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 vaccine were distributed for use in long-term care facilities and 282,740 people at the facility 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 increased by 2,428 to 346,925.
The CDC reported its case count of the respiratory disease known as COVID-19, caused by a new coronavirus, as of 4 pm ET on Friday against its previous report published on December 31.
CDC figures do not necessarily reflect the cases reported by individual states.
(Reporting by Manojna Maddipatla and Nandakumar D in Bengaluru; Editing by David Gregorio)
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