US states to start getting Covid-19 vaccine from Monday

Washington, Dec 13 : The first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will begin arriving in US states from Monday, an official of President Donald Trump’s administration said.
Shipping companies UPS and FedEx will deliver the vaccine to nearly 150 state locations, Xinhua news agency quoted Gustave Perna, chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, as saying on Saturday.
Perna said the vaccine was timed to arrive on Monday morning so that health workers would be available to receive the shots and then begin giving them.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued authorization for emergency use of the Covid-19 vaccine of American drugmaker Pfizer in partnership with German company BioNTech, the first vaccine against the disease in the country.
The emergency use authorization allows the vaccine to be distributed in the country.
The FDA said the totality of the available data provides clear evidence that Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may be effective in preventing the virus.