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President-elect Joe Biden receives his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine from Nurse partitioner Tabe Mase at Christiana Hospital on live television in Newark Del., Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Image Credit: AFP

Washington: More than a million people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield said Wednesday.

“The United States achieved an early but important milestone today — jurisdictions have now reported that more than one million people have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine since administration began 10 days ago,” he said.