COVID-19 updates: US has 1st day since November with fewer than 100K new cases

Former Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera will join Mayor Bill de Blasio at Yankee stadium Friday afternoon to celebrate the opening of a mass vaccination site at the stadium.

The site, which will be reserved for residents from the Bronx, will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and is meant to ensure that Black and Latino residents have equal access to the vaccine. It will be open 24 hours a day when more vaccine supply is available, according to the mayor.

"I think it’s going to be extraordinary," de Blasio told WNYC on Friday. "We are going to have a wonderful celebration of this place opening up. I will be joined by Mariano Rivera, who will help us get this message out. This is for people of the Bronx, people who haven’t been able to get vaccinated."

-ABC News' Aaron Katersky contributed to this report.

So far, 8% of the U.S. population has received one or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines, according to official figures released Friday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In total, 35,203,710 vaccine doses have been administered nationwide. About 27.9 million people -- 8% of the population -- have received one or more doses, while 6.9 million people -- 2% of the population -- have received two doses.

ABC News' Josh Margolin contributed to this report.

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration announced Friday that 1,110 active-duty military personnel will be deployed across the country to assist with COVID-19 vaccinations.

The announcement was made during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C.

The troops, sourced from across the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, will be split up into five teams of 222 personnel that will be assigned to support five COVID-19 vaccination centers run by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), according to a fact sheet on the initiative released by the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

FEMA and the U.S. Department of Defense will jointly determine when the troops are no longer needed for vaccination support, according the fact sheet.

ABC News' Matt Seyler contributed to this report.

The U.S. Senate approved a budget resolution early Friday morning that would allow for the passage of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package without the threat of a filibuster from Republican lawmakers who oppose it.

Vice President Kamala Harris broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate by casting a vote in favor of the Democratic measure, which was approved by the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The resolution now goes back to the House for final approval.

Biden has said he hopes to garner Republicans' support for his sweeping COVID-19 relief package, billed as the American Rescue Plan, though Democrats are working to push it through Congress with or without the GOP.