Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. reported to President Rodrigo Duterte that over three million Filipinos had been vaccinated against COVID-19.
“Sa ngayon maganda pa rin po ang mga balita natin dahil ang ating pagbabakuna napakataas na po, nasa 3 million,” Galvez said in a taped public briefing aired Tuesday morning.
(We have good news because we’ve already vaccinated 3 million, which is already high.)
According to the data he showed, 2,282,273 Filipinos from the A1 to A4 priority groups were already vaccinated as of May 16.
Meanwhile, there are 719,602 Filipinos who belong to the same vaccination groups already completed their vaccination.
Galvez said a total of 3,001,875 Filipinos have been vaccinated against COVID-19 so far.
The vaccine czar also told Duterte that the national government was able to vaccinate 1 million Filipinos within 17 days this May.
“Ang projection po natin ay 2 million this coming May which I believe kayang-kaya [Our projection for May is 2 million which I think is very doable],” he said.
“Kasi nung unang (rollout) natin para tayong nagbe-break in na sasaskyan. Nu’ng march umabot tayo ng 40 days bago maka-isang million. Ganoon din po sa April na 1 million in 30 days. Ngayon nakuha po natin ang 1 million in 17 days at nakita po natin na ‘yung ating volumes [ng bakuna] dumating lang nu’ng May 7,” he added.
Over 3M Pinoys vaccinated against COVID-19: Galvez
(In March and April, we hit the one-million mark after 40 and 30 days. But in May, we hit it only after 17 days because of the volume of the vaccines that arrived.)
So far, the government has given 7,149,020 vaccines out of 7,779,050. A total of 3,784 vaccination sites were also built.
The government targets to vaccinate 16,424,963 Filipinos in the A1 to A3 vaccination groups.
Meanwhile, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said the government needs to inoculate 58 million or 70% of 83 million people in COVID-19 hotspots to achieve herd immunity.
Roque said the hotspots include the National Capital Region, Metro Cebu, Metro Davao, Bulacan, Cavite, Pampanga, Laguna, Batangas, and Rizal.
Meanwhile, the expansion areas included Region 3, Region 4, Cagayan de Oro, Baguio City, Zamboanga City, Bacolod City, Iloilo City, General Santos, Iligan City, Region 7 and Region 11, Region 10, Region 6, Region 8, Region 9, Region 2, Cordillera Administrative Region, Region 5, Region 1, Region 12 and Region 13.
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