DPH: More than half a million Mass. residents are fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 – WCVB Boston

More than half a million Massachusetts residents are fully-vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In its daily vaccine data report, the DPH said Saturday that 504,304 people in the Bay State have received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The data is gathered from the Massachusetts Immunization Information System at midnight the night before.According to the DPH, there are 1,166,889 people in Massachusetts who have received at least their first dose of the vaccine, bringing the grand total of doses administered to 1,671,193.As of Saturday, a total of 2,047,960 vaccine doses have been shipped to Massachusetts. This means that 81.6% 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, 1,526,135 have been shipped to state providers, while the remaining 521,825 have been shipped directly to pharmacies by the federal government.In the DPH’s weekly report released on Thursday, 28 communities were in the “Red,” or at high risk of COVID-19, down from 66 communities the week before.The state says there have been 494,740 recoveries, according to the latest weekly report.