Washington - The United States is starting today a vast vaccination campaign against covid-19 in the country, where the number of deaths caused by the disease approaches 300,000 deaths.
On Sunday, US officials indicated that the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic has reached 299,093, while the total number of cases is over 16 million.
This weekend, the vaccine from the Pfizer-BioNTech labs has begun shipping, in refrigerated boxes at less than 70 degrees Fahrenheit, from the Pfizer plant in Michigan to hospitals and elsewhere.
Pfizer has indicated that 20 planes will carry these vaccines every day.
"The vaccines have been shipped and are on their way," US President Donald Trump welcomed Sunday in a message posted on the social network Twitter.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said the state, in the east of the country, will be the first to vaccinate residents, less than 72 hours after the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine received the "green light" from US health officials.
About three million doses will be made available by Wednesday, to vaccinate close to 20 million Americans before the end of the year and 100 million before the end of March in the country, which registered 1.1 million new confirmed cases in the past five days.
On Friday, the United States was the 6th country to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, after the United Kingdom, Canada, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Mexico.
The European medicine agency is expected to make a recommendation by the end of December.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,6 million deaths resulting from more than 71.6 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.
