U.S. approves third dose of COVID-19 vaccines to 1 million

Sept 1 Reuters -The United States has administered a third dose of either Pfizer Inc or Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccines to over 1 million people as of Tuesday morning, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention said.

U.S. health regulators approved another shot on Aug 13 for people with weak immune systems likely to have a third protection from the two-dose regimens.

The country has distributed 371,280, 129 doses and administered 443,741, 705 doses of the two dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer BioNTech as well as Johnson Johnson's one-shot vaccine.

Those figures are up from the 370,212, 027 vaccine doses that CDC said had gone out to arms by Aug. 31 out of 441,332, 150 doses delivered.

The agency said 205,527, 578 people had receive at least one dose while 174,600, 017 people have fully vaccinated as of 6: 00 a.m. ET on Wednesday. Reporting by Shailesh Kuber in Bengaluru; Editing by Manojna Maddipatla in Singapore.