Rural hospitals in U.S. Texas to get COVID-19 vaccines: health officials


By Gao Lu
  • World
  • Monday, 21 Dec 2020

HOUSTON, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Some 620,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines are expected to arrive in hospitals in the U.S. state of Texas on Monday, including those in rural areas.

Local media The Texas Tribune quoted health officials as saying that the second shipment of vaccines will include 159,900 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 460,500 doses of the vaccine manufactured by Moderna, which won federal emergency use approval on Friday.

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