WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 08th March, 2021) Some 31 million Americans have been fully inoculated against the novel coronavirus with the Moderna, Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson vaccines, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said in a White House podcast on Monday.
"As of today, 59 million people in the United States have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine and approximately 31 million Americans. or 9.2 percent of the US population, is fully vaccinated, putting us on a strong path to eventually end this pandemic," Walensky said.
US health authorities were also vaccinating more than 2 million Americans per day, the CDC director added.
"The pandemic remains a very serious situation ... [but] we are starting to turn a corner," Walensky said.
Nevertheless, more than 90 percent of the US population was still either unprotected or had yet to be fully vaccinated Walensky cautioned.
