According to Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine, residents and staff at 126 nursing facilities across Pennsylvania will receive their first dosage of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this week, writes Erin McCarthy for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

They will be the first people in the state to receive the shot other than frontline health workers who began getting their shots earlier this month. So far, a minimum of 72,762 health workers have received their first doses.

This week, hospitals around Pennsylvania are scheduled to receive 47,775 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 26,100 doses of the Moderna vaccine.

These numbers exclude the vaccinations already performed in Philadelphia, which has a separate vaccine allotment.

“What’s still clear is the vaccination process will take us some time,” said Levine. However she estimates that the general public will not be vaccinated until at least late spring or early summer.

“In the meantime, our current mitigation efforts are more important than ever,” she added.

The names of the nursing homes that are receiving their first doses of vaccines this week will be released in the following days.

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