#FedEx location in the Bronx awaiting Pfizer’s COVID vaccine shipment

The first shipment of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine will reach New York on Monday — and health-care workers could be getting their shots within hours of arrival.

The Empire State was awaiting 170,000 doses — 72,000 of which will go to New York City — after the shipments left a Pfizer facility in Michigan on Sunday.

“Hope is on the way, and it’s departing from Kalamazoo, Michigan,” Gov. Cuomo tweeted, adding a video of trucks leaving the warehouse. “We are getting closer to the finish line.”

Health-care workers and nursing-home residents will be the first to get the shots.

The general public likely won’t be able to get vaccinated until “the beginning of February,” Cuomo said at a press conference last week.

A draft of the state’s vaccine administration plan released in October laid out five phases for the endeavor. After the first wave kicking off this week, first responders, teachers and other essential frontline workers who regularly interact with the public are in phase 2. Next will be those over 65 and people who are at high-risk of serious illness, according to the draft.

All other essential workers will be in phase 4, with everyone else relegated to phase 5.

In the Big Apple, doctors’ offices and pharmacies can enroll with the Health Department to distribute the vaccine, according to a memo sent out last week.

New York’s initial shipment is anticipated to flow to 90 ultra-cold-storage sites statewide, Cuomo has said.

It is unclear how many doses each site will get.

Forty-four of the locations are in the city and cover 54 hospitals where the vaccine will be administered, city Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi said last week.

“Our hospital colleagues have been drilling and preparing to understand how it will be taken out of the box, into the ultra-cold freezer, and starting the process of actually unloading the vials to turn them into the injections that will eventually be vaccinations,” he said.

Under a federal program, CVS and Walgreens have been tapped to vaccinate residents and staff at nursing homes, Cuomo has said.

Officials will also be setting up a “vaccine command center” across the street from City Hall to report on the distribution process and build trust with the community about the vaccine, the de Blasio administration said.

Two workers from the state’s largest health-care provider, Northwell Health, are expected to be vaccinated during a press conference at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens on Monday.

On Sunday, workers at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens were abuzz about the vaccine.

“We were all talking about it this morning,” an emergency-room nurse told The Post, adding, “They haven’t asked us for volunteers [to receive it] or told us anything.”

Additional reporting by Kevin Sheehan, Rachel Green and Carl Campanile