LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - More than 40% of Nebraska's 90,000 health care workers have received the first of two doses of the coronavirus vaccine as the state continues to ramp up distribution.
State health officials said 78,074 of the 144,363 doses Nebraska has received so far have been administered so far - primarily to health care workers. Residents and workers at long-term care facilities have also begun getting vaccines.
About 10,000 people in the state have received both doses of the vaccine.
Nebraska said 1,197 doses of the vaccine were administered on Sunday, which is typically a slower day. The state administered an average of 5,811 doses each day last week.
The state reported 644 new cases of the virus and 12 deaths Monday to give Nebraska a total of 176,670 cases and 1,772 deaths since the pandemic began.
The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Nebraska has increased over the past two weeks from 798.86 new cases per day on Dec. 28 to 1,003.71 new cases per day on Monday.
The number of people hospitalized with the virus in the state increased Monday to 484 from Sunday's 475, but it remains less than half of November's peak of 987.