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Over 1.3 million Filipinos vaccinated, so far

Over 200,000 healthcare workers complete COVID-19 vaccination

/ 11:27 AM April 21, 2021

Rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination drive at the Sta. Ana Hospital

Health frontliners receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the Sta. Ana Hospital in Manila.  (Image from the Facebook of Manila Mayor Isko Moreno Domagoso)

MANILA, Philippines — Over 200,000 healthcare workers nationwide have received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, vaccine czar Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. reported on Wednesday.

In a House briefing conducted by the trade and health committees Wednesday, Galvez  told lawmakers that a total of 209,456 healthcare workers have received the second dose of the vaccine.

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Galvez added that the government has so far administered 1,562,563 COVID-19 vaccine doses –  989,703 to healthcare workers, 132,948 senior citizens and 180,315 individuals with comorbidities.

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This illustrative photograph taken in a studio shows a miniature shopping cart with syringe and bottles reading “Covid-19 Vaccine”, in Paris, on January 8, 2021. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)

Galvez previously said the government is expected to receive at least 13 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines of various brands in the second quarter of the year.

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