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WASHINGTON: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they had administered 4,225,756 first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Saturday morning (January 2) and distributed 13,071,925 doses.
The count of vaccine doses distributed and the number of people who received the first dose correspond to the Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines, as of 9 a.m. ET Saturday, the agency said.
According to the count published on December 30, the agency had 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 in long-term care facilities and 282,740 people in the facilities received their first dose, the agency said.
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The agency also reported 20,061,818 new coronavirus cases, an increase of 168,637 cases from its previous count, and said the death toll had risen 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, at 4 p.m. ET on Friday compared to its previous report released on December 31.
CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.
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