AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – Efforts to vaccinate Texans from COVID-19 continue to ramp up.
This week, the state will receive 800,000 first doses of vaccine to be shipped to providers across Texas.
The Texas Department of State Health Services is allocating 656,810 doses to at least 445 providers in 178 counties.
About 200,000 first doses will be available to pharmacies and federally-qualified health centers directly from the federal government.
The latest allocation is the third largest Texas has received since inoculations began in December.
In North Texas, the federally-supported sites in Arlington and Dallas, as well as in Houston, will finish their three-week cycle of first doses and will be administering second doses for the next three weeks.
To date, Texas has administered more than 7.6 million doses. More than 5 million have received at least one dose and more than 2.7 million have been fully vaccinated.
According to Texas DSHS, about 55 percent have received at least one dose and about one in three are fully vaccinated.
This week’s allotment of vaccines coincides with the opening of eligibility of the vaccine. Starting today, anyone over the age of 50 is eligible to get the shot.
Those in vulnerable populations, health care workers, long-term care residents, educators and those 65 and older are already eligible to get vaccinated.
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