The US has administered 187 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC says

FILE PHOTO: A large vaccination site is shown as people with pre-existing health conditions access a vaccination during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Inglewood, California, US, March 15, 2021. REUTERS / Mike Blake / File Photo

(Reuters) – The United States had administered 187,047,131 doses of COVID-19 vaccines and distributed 237,796,105 doses as of Sunday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Those numbers are higher than the 183,467,709 doses the CDC said were administered on April 10, out of the 237,791,735 doses delivered.

The agency said 119,242,902 people had received at least one dose, while 72,630,892 people had been fully vaccinated as of Sunday.

The CDC count includes the two-dose Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, as well as the Johnson & Johnson one-time vaccine from 6 a.m. EDT Sunday.

A total of 7,766,002 vaccine doses have been administered in U.S. long-term care facilities, the agency said.

Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong

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