SAN ANTONIO, Zambales – A total of 10,221 residents of the province have received their second dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 as of Friday, June 25.
Latest data from the local health office, however, showed that the number is only 2.5 percent of the total target population of Zambales.
The province needs to vaccinate 400,000 of the 590,800 residents or 70 percent of the population to achieve herd immunity.
Residents of Subic, Zambales wait for their turn to get the vaccine against COVID-19. The provincial health office is looking for volunteers who can help in the rollout. (Photo courtesy of Subic municipal health office)
Dr. Noel Bueno, provincial health director, said the province had administered at least 38,116 doses of vaccines supplied by the national government.
A total of 27,895 residents had already received their first dose of the vaccine.
The province administered a total of 16,362 CoronaVac (Sinovac) vaccines from China and 21,754 AstraZeneca (Oxford) vaccines from the U.K.