By Pearl Gumapos
As of Monday (Sept. 6), the country has administered a total of 35,838,964 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Some 26.97% or 20,805,610 first doses have been jabbed and 15,033,354 second doses or 19.49% have been administered.
Last Friday (Sept. 3), 510,779 daily jabs were achieved, 477,055 daily jabs for Saturday (Sept. 4), and 277,995 daily jabs on Sunday (Sept. 5).
Meanwhile, vaccine czar and National task Force Against COVID-19 chief implementer Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. on Thursday (Sept. 2), in an interview with CNN Philippines, said the government hopes to vaccinate at least 20 million individuals by the end of September.
“We are focusing on the [second] dose. At least maitaas natin ang capacity ng ating vaccination sites. We will aspire na we can get the 20 million [fully vaccinated individuals] by the end of the month,” he said.
Galvez said they are coordinating with vaccine manufacturers to scale up the delivery of vaccines to the country.
“We already negotiated with our manufacturer to scale up their production and delivery this coming month. Kinakausap na namin ‘yung Sinovac, Pfizer, Moderna, and Sputnik na they can deliver as much as millions of vaccine,” Galvez said.
So far, 52 million vaccines have arrived in the Philippines. The country is expecting 25 million vaccines to arrive this September and 30 million in October. – bny
