Philippines administers 700, 000 COVID-19 shots on June 23-24

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has administered 700,000 COVID-19 vaccines in two days, making it the highest number of vaccinations so far achieved in the country since its rollout began in March, National Task Force against COVID-19 deputy chief implementer Vince Dizon said Friday.

In a televised briefing, Dizon said the country managed to administer 350,000 jabs nationwide for two consecutive days – on June 23 and 24.

“Actually kahapon, Thursday, pangalawang araw natin straight na umabot ng 350,000 mahigit ng ating vaccination in one day,” Dizon said.

(Yesterday, Thursday, it’s the second day straight for us to reach 350,000 vaccinations in one day.)

“Sa loob lamang ng dalawang araw, naka 700,000 tayo na nabakunahan. Ito na ang pinakamataas nating nagawa sa loob nitong magkasunod na dalawang araw,” he added.

(In just two days, we administered 700,000 vaccines. This is the highest we achieved in two consecutive days.)

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The Philippines is targeting to eventually administer 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses daily to achieve herd immunity towards the end of the year.

Over 9 million doses have so far been administered since the government began its vaccination program, with more than 2 million people already fully vaccinated or have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines.

KGA