(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had administered 19,107,959 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Friday morning and distributed 39,892,400 doses.
The tally of vaccine doses are for both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, vaccines as of 9:00 a.m. ET on Friday, the agency said.
According to the tally posted on Jan. 21, the agency had administered 17,546,374 doses of the vaccines, and distributed 37,960,000 doses.
The agency said 16,243,093 people had received one or more doses, while 2,756,953 people got the second dose as of Friday.
A total of 2,289,284 vaccine doses have been administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.
(Reporting by Trisha Roy in Bengaluru)
