MANILA, Philippines — To speed up the rollout of vaccines, health officials should relax the rule on prescreening people to be inoculated against COVID-19, Sen. Richard Gordon said in a statement over the weekend. The senator expressed “deep concern” about the prospect of vaccine doses going to waste—particularly the AstraZeneca jabs donated through the Covax global-sharing facility. ADVERTISEMENTVergeire said less than 1 percent of COVID-19 vaccines delivered to the country have been lost to wastage. According to her, the vaccine wastage was at 772 out of the 7.78 million doses delivered to the country. Virus case updateAuthorities recorded 5,790 additional COVID-19 cases on Sunday, which brought total cases to 1,143,963.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 16, 2021 20:48 UTC