Nearly half of the 1,230 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) or inmates of the city jail here have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The Philippines received 720,000 doses of the government-procured Sputnik V vaccine on Saturday (Oct. 16), the biggest delivery so far by Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute.
MANILA – National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 chief Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. called on local government units (LGUs) to scale up their vaccination rates as more jabs will be delivered in the coming weeks.
The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday (Oct. 16) reported that as of 8:00 p.m., a total of 1,151 children have been vaccinated as part of the government’s pediatric inoculation.
The City Health Office (CHO) reported on Friday that 55.77 percent or 292,788 out of its target 525,000 eligible population are already fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
