American President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he is bumping up his deadline by April 19 for American states to make all adults eligible for COVID-19 vaccines. But even as he showed confidence about the pace of immunizations, he cautioned U.S people that the country isn’t yet out of the woods when it comes to the epidemic.

Joe Biden said in remarks at the White House to let him be deadly earnest with Americans. Not being at the finish line, the government still has a lot of work to do. Moreover, Americans are still in a life and death race against this deadly virus.

With all 50 states having opened eligibility to the public or at least having announced when they plan to do so, the President announced that every American adult would be eligible to be immunized by April 19, instead of his original deadline of May 1.

After visiting an inoculation center in Alexandria, Virginia, while speaking at the White House, Mr. Biden said that 150M COVID vaccine jabs had been administered within his first 75-days in office, in line with a stated goal of 0.2B doses by his 100th day.

I’m proud to share that yesterday, we crossed 150 million shots in just 75 days of my Administration — on our way to hitting our goal of 200 million shots by my 100th day in office.

— President Biden (@POTUS) April 6, 2021

While Biden was pleased with the progress, he stressed America must continue to ramp up efforts to fight and beat the coronavirus pandemic.

Mr. Biden said that they know what they have to do. They have to ramp up a whole administration approach that rallies the entire nation and puts them on a war footing to beat coronavirus truly.

Biden added that they’ve been doing, getting sufficient vaccine supply, mobilizing more vaccinators, creating more places to get immunized. Moreover, they’re now administering an average of 3M doses per day, over 20M shots a week.

The first nation to administer 150 million doses

Joe Biden touted how America reported more than 4M vaccine doses administered in 24 hours last weekend. That record came at the same time federal authority put Johnson & Johnson officials in charge of a Baltimore facility, which it stopped from another vaccine production by AstraZeneca after an ingredient error ruined potentially fifteen million one-shot doses.

As other countries demand more doses, including from America, Biden stated that the United States is the first nation to administer 150M shots.

According to Our World in Data, America had administered more than 165 million doses as of Monday night, with China in second having administered a little less than 0.14 billion shots.

The U.S. CDC states Biden said more than 75 percent of people over 65 had gotten a shot. Over 55 percent of them are fully immunized, which was at only 8 percent when he took office.

Tuesday’s update advances President’s call from last week that 90 percent of adults will be eligible to get a COVID vaccine by April 19 and have a vaccination place within 5 miles of where they live.

Joe Biden said the number of pharmacies participating in the federal pharmacy vaccination program increased from the present 17000 locations to 40000.

Moreover, the President said last week his government would open twelve additional federally-run mass vaccination locations. In the past week, new immunization places have been declared in Wisconsin, Tennessee, South Carolina, Maryland, Minnesota, and Colorado.

Previously, CNN has reported that all U.S. states have announced when they intend to open vaccinations to every eligible individual if they have not done so already.

Campaign to Urge Hesitant People to get Immunized

South Dakota, Nebraska, and New Jersey have declared plans to expand eligibility to those sixteen years and older before Joe Biden’s new deadline, and other states presently plan to open eligibility by May 1. Also, Mr. Biden is anticipated to credit the governors’ effort to meet May 1 deadline for this change.

In Alexandria, the U.S. President said he expects America would have enough vaccine shots that it will be able to begin distributing jabs to other nations soon.

Joe Biden has used federal funds to create new community inoculation centers across the nation and launch mobile immunization clinics and provider partnerships to reach rural communities and under-served urban areas.

His government recently launched a countrywide vaccine promotional campaign aimed at urging hesitant American people to get vaccinated using funds from his $1.9T COVID-19 economic relief package.

CNN has reported that as U.S. people increasingly get immunized, the Biden government manages to create a set of standards for people to prove they have been vaccinated against coronavirus.

A government official previously told CNN they are working with a range of businesses on the standards, including non-profits and tech firms, and said they are probably still weeks away from being finalized.

Mr. Biden has stressed that while the nation is now immunizing a record number of their adults, the battle against the pandemic is far from won as COVID cases are once more on the rise.

The U.S. President has called on every governor, local leader, and mayor to maintain, and in some cases, restore face mask mandates. Moreover, his plea comes as some US states have lifted face masks’ restrictions and enabled businesses to return to full capacity against public medical experts’ guidance.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), over 555600 American people have died from coronavirus as of Tuesday morning. According to the U.S. CDC, approximately 0.167 billion vaccine doses have been administered.