DPH: More than 1 million in Mass. have received first dose of COVID-19 vaccine – WCVB Boston

More than 1 million Massachusetts residents have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.In its daily vaccine data report, the DPH said Saturday that 1,000,734 people in the Bay State have received at least one dose of the vaccine. The data is gathered from the Massachusetts Immunization Information System at midnight the night before.According to the DPH, there are 372,172 people in Massachusetts who have received both doses of the vaccine, bringing the grand total of doses administered to 1,372,906.As of Saturday, a total of 1,683,820 vaccine doses have been shipped to Massachusetts. This means that 81.5% of those doses have been administered in the state.Click here to see a graphical look at COVID-19 dataLatest town-by-town breakdown released by stateOf the doses shipped to the Bay State, 1,293,075 have been shipped to state providers, while the remaining 390,745 have been shipped directly to pharmacies by the federal government.In the DPH’s weekly report released on Thursday, 66 communities were in the “Red,” or at high risk of COVID-19, down from 110 communities the week before.The state says there have been 477,796 recoveries, according to the latest weekly report.