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U.S. administers over 420 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines - CDC

(Reuters) - the U.S. has administered 420,657,683 doses of COVID-19 vaccines within the country as of Saturday morning and disbursed 518,701,225 doses, the U.S. facilities for disease control and Prevention spoke of.

those figures are up from the 419,020,753 vaccine doses the CDC said had long past into hands by means of Oct. 29 out of 514,925,015 doses delivered.

The agency observed 221,221,467 people had got as a minimum one dose whereas 192,244,927 people had been entirely vaccinated as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Saturday.

The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, as well as Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine.

About 17.7 million individuals have received a booster dose of either Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine. Booster doses from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson were licensed by way of the U.S. fitness regulator on Oct. 20.

(Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; editing by way of Son ya Hepinstall)

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