MANILA, Philippines — More than 29,000 individuals have so far been vaccinated against COVID-19, Malacañang said Monday.
“Mayroon na tayong halos 30,000 or 29,266 na medical frontliners na nabakunahan,” presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said in an online briefing.
(We now have almost 30,000 or 29,266 medical frontliners who have been vaccinated.)
On March 7 alone, Roque said 4,128 individuals were vaccinated.
There have been 383,980 COVID-19 vaccines deployed across different regions, of which 329,480 are Sinovac and 54,500 are AstraZeneca.
“So iyong first dose deployment po ng Sinovac, tapos na po,” Roque said.
(We have deployed the first doses of Sinovac, it’s done.)
The Philippines has been rolling out its COVID-19 vaccination program using 600,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines from China and 525,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the COVAX facility.
One million more doses of Sinovac vaccines procured by the national government will be delivered to the Philippines on March 21, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. has said.
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