The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it had administered 2 127 143 first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Monday morning and had distributed 11 445 175 doses.
The tally of vaccine doses distributed and the number of people who received first dose are for both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, COVID-19 vaccines as of 9:00 a.m. ET on Monday, the agency said.
According to the tally posted on December 26, the agency had administered 1 944 585 first vaccine doses and distributed 9 547 925 doses.
The agency also reported 19 055 869 cases of new coronavirus, an increase of 145 959 cases from its previous count, and said the number of deaths had risen by 1 345 to 332 246.
The CDC reported its tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a new coronavirus, as of 4 p.m. ET on Sunday versus its previous report a day earlier.
The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states.
