Pritzker: COVID-19 Vaccine Shipments May Reach Half-Million Next Week
February 19, 2021 11:50AM CST
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The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses shipped to Illinois is going up. Governor J.B. Pritzker announced yesterday that he expects the state to start receiving up to a half-million doses next week. The state has administered over one-point-eight-million doses of the vaccine and has received nearly 300-thousand doses per week from the federal government. Pritzker made the announcement about the anticipated increase at a mass vaccination site in Belleville.
