(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had administered 33,878,254 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed 55,943,800 doses.
The tally of vaccine doses are for both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, vaccines as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the agency said.
According to the tally posted on Tuesday, the agency had administered 32,780,860 doses of the vaccines, and distributed 52,657,675 doses.
The agency said 27,154,956 people had received 1 or more doses while 6,436,931 people have got the second dose as of Wednesday.
A total of 4,022,407 vaccine doses have been administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.
(Reporting by Vishwadha Chander in Bengaluru; Editing by Ramakrishnan M.)
