At least 70 percent of adult citizens of the United States of America (USA) have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the White House announced.
The USA thus reached the goal that President Joseph Biden had hoped would be achieved by July 4, the Guardian reports.
In recent days, health and government officials have characterized the resurgence in the number of people infected with the coronavirus as a "pandemic of the unvaccinated", pointing out that most of the newly infected are in parts of the country where the vaccination rate is lower than average.
The US records an average of 72 new cases per day, which is more than the number of new infections last summer, when the number of new cases was up to 68,7.
The number of new infections is still much lower than at the peak of the pandemic in early January, when the US recorded more than 250 new cases per day.
The data show that more than 90 percent of newly infected people are unvaccinated and that more than 95 percent of those hospitalized or who died were not vaccinated.
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