11 percent of health workers vaccinated against COVID-19: DOH

Nearly 200,000 out of a total of 1.7 million health workers in the country have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the 2 weeks since the government’s vaccination program was launched.

According to data from the Department of Health, 193,492 health workers, or more than 11 percent of the total number have been vaccinated against the disease.

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To vaccinate all health workers, the country will need 3.4 million vaccine doses.

But so far, only 1.1 million are in the country, of which 90 percent have been taken to vaccination sites as well as Batanes and Tawi-Tawi.

According to vaccine czar Carlito Galvez, the global supply of vaccines against COVID-19 is still limited so health workers come first.

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Amid criticism by some that the government’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout is slow, Galvez said its implementation is “on track” or just on schedule.

Galvez is confident that 70 percent of the population will be vaccinated this year.

At least 1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Chinese company Sinovac are expected to arrive this March.

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Meanwhile, the initial allocation of COVID-19 has run out in some parts of Metro Manila.

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11 percent of health workers vaccinated against COVID-19: DOH

Navotas City has asked the Department of Health (DOH) for an additional supply of COVID-19 vaccines, where more than 400 frontliners in barangay health centers are waiting for the vaccine.

More than 300 staff of Navotas City Hospital have been inoculated.

The vaccine rollout in Manila was also delayed for 5 days due to waiting for additional vaccines.

According to Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso, about 3,500 or less than half of their health workers have been vaccinated.

In Quezon City, vaccinations at some local government hospitals will end this Monday.

The Philippines is scheduled to launch the COVID-19 vaccine tracker this week so that the public can monitor developments in vaccination against COVID-19.

Meanwhile, according to AstraZeneca, after reviewing the safety data of those who were injected with its COVID-19 vaccine, there is no evidence that their vaccine increased the blood clot risk in those who were vaccinated.