The United States had administered 482,695,970 doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the country as of Saturday morning and distributed 594,372,295 doses, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Those figures are up from the 480,567,772 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by Dec 10 out of 591,558,685 doses delivered.

The agency said 238,679,707 people had received at least one dose while 201,688,550 people had been fully vaccinated as of 6:00am ET on Saturday.

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