All available COVID-19 vaccines in PH distributed to vaccination sites — NTF, DOH

MANILA, Philippines — All the available COVID-19 vaccines in the country have been distributed to over 3,000 vaccination sites, government data showed on Wednesday.

According to data from the National Task Force (NTF) against COVID-19 and the Department of Health, all of the 3,025,600 vaccine doses have been distributed to 3,263 vaccination areas as of April 20.

Of this number, over 1.5 million doses have so far been administered, including 1.3 million doses given as the first dose.

The data also showed that 209,456 individuals have so far completed their second dose of the jabs.

Meanwhile, the seven-day average of vaccinated individuals per day is 43,835, according to NTF and DOH.

The current deployment of vaccines is for healthcare workers, senior citizens, and persons with comorbidity—the first three priority sectors for vaccination.

The vaccines that were administered were those from Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech and British-Swede drugmaker AstraZeneca.

The Philippines has 127,006 active cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday. Since the pandemic began, a total of 953,106 coronavirus cases have been recorded in the country.

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