"According to experts at the Yale School of Public Health, the pace of our vaccination efforts have saved more than 100,000 lives and prevented more than 450,000 hospitalizations," TASS quoted him as saying.

According to him, to date, 71% of US residents aged 12 and over have received at least one dose of the drug from COVID-19.

Earlier, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally approved the coronavirus vaccine developed by the American pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer and the German company BioNTech.