The United States has administered 52,884,356 doses of Covid-19 vaccines as of Sunday morning and delivered 70,057,800 doses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The doses are for both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines as of 6am ET (1100 GMT) on Sunday, the agency said.

According to the tally posted on Saturday, the agency had administered 50,641,884 doses of the vaccines.

The agency said 38,292,270 people had received one or more doses while 14,077,440 people have received the second dose as of Sunday.

A total of 5,822,871 vaccine doses have been administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.

The US has had over 28 million cases and close to 500,000 deaths due to Covid-19, the threat of which was brushed off in its early days by ex-President Donald Trump.

- Reuters