Pennsylvania is closing in on 1.5 million inoculations, the state Department of Health reported Thursday.

The department reported about 335,000 people have completed the two-dose courses of Pfizer or Moderna products and nearly 1.5 million are halfway through.

Not all are Pennsylvania residents. The department reports that out-of-state residents have received 26,964 full and 80,359 partial.

There are no county and state lines with respect to receiving a vaccine. All avenues are available, if qualifying.

It's unknown how many Pennsylvania residents have crossed state lines to receive an inoculation. The state doesn't provide a breakdown for the number of vaccinations done at hospitals or nursing homes or retail clinics.

About 1,000 more Berks County residents entered or completed the vaccination process, the department said Thursday.

For the entire vaccination effort, a total of 10,758 residents have received both doses and 20,825 have received one, according to the state.

Last week, all the doses distributed to Berks outlets were listed as the Moderna product. The state has not yet listed the sites in Berks that are getting the vaccines this week, but the candidate sites are listed.

This map shows the eligible providers for vaccines in Pennsylvania:tinyurl.com/1gmxvajw. The state has instructed residents to contact the providers to determine if there is an opportunity for an inoculation.

Those without internet access can call 1-877-724-3258.

The state remains in Phase 1A vaccinations, which includes health care workers, nursing home residents and anyone age 65 and older or age 16 to 64 with these preexisting conditions: cancer, chronic kidney disease, COPD, Down syndrome, heart failure, coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathies, weakened immune system, obesity, pregnancy, sickle cell disease, smoking and Type 2 diabetes mellitus.

By the end of the week, the state expects that 2.44 million doses of the vaccines will have been allocated or received by providers. That's all doses. Each course counts as two doses.

There were 135 more COVID cases credited to Berks County in state Department of Health reporting on Thursday, raising the pandemic total to 34,009.

The seven-day average dipped to 129. The average smooths the uneven reporting of test results.

Each day's report is a look at statistics from the prior day, except for Monday, which is for Saturday and Sunday statistics.

The state reported the deaths of six more Berks residents Thursday for a pandemic total of 860. That was part of 115 total deaths of Pennsylvanians, and made the state pandemic total 22,860.

Overall, the state reported 3,978 additional cases for a pandemic total of 884,269.

In COVID hospitalizations, the state count fell 102 patients to 2,687, with a Berks component of 113. The strong downward trend statewide continued from nearly 6,400 patients a few days before Christmas.

Reading Hospital and Penn State Health St. Joseph updated their dashboards by midday Thursday to show 83 and 20 patients, respectively, for a combined total of 103, an uptick of two from Wednesday.

The county coroner's office on Thursday added three deaths for a new pandemic total of 835. All were Berks residents, and the age range was 79 to 97. Two were men.

The coroner's count includes 40 nonresidents who won't appear in the state report for Berks.

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Pa. updates on COVID vaccinations progress as 1000-plus Berks residents added to the inoculation rolls - Reading Eagle