Initial shots of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will be delivered to states from Monday morning, said General Gustave Perna, Head of the Trump-led administration’s Operation Warp Speed, on Saturday.
US news website The Hill quoted Perna, saying that 145 distribution sites will receive the vaccine doses on Monday, 425 sites and 66 sites on Wednesday. The first shipment of RNA (mRNA) technology based Pfizer vaccine would likely to leave Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Sunday, reported CNN.
On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on the recommendation of expert committee for emergency use to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.
Britain became the first country to roll out Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine followed by Bahrain, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Mexico. Now, the US is the sixth country to authorise the use of Pfizer’s vaccine and will soon start vaccinations.
According to Johns Hopkins University latest update, about 15,998,522 coronavirus cases are tested positive in the US and 296,977 deaths have been reported so far.