US states to start getting COVID-19 vaccine Monday: media


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E-mail Xinhua, December 13, 2020 Adjust font size: 下载安装Flash播放器 The first shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in U.S. states Monday, U.S. media quoted an official as saying on Saturday. Shipping companies UPS and FedEx will deliver the vaccine to nearly 150 state locations, U.S. media quoted Gustave Perna, chief operating officer of the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed, as saying. Perna said the vaccine was timed to arrive Monday morning so that health workers would be available to receive the shots and then begin giving them. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued authorization...