MANILA, Philippines — Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. called on all local governments to ramp up further their vaccination rollouts, saying the supply of vaccines against COVID-19 was no longer a problem. More than 1.3 million doses of Moderna arrived in the country on Saturday, bringing the total vaccine deliveries to 85,575,600 since February. According to Galvez, the country has been receiving a daily average of 1.5 million vaccines, with more than 14 million doses shipped to the country in the first week of October alone. Galvez said around 23 million Filipinos had already been fully vaccinated, or around 30 percent of the target population. Galvez earlier assured the public that the country had enough supply of COVID-19 vaccines for the rest of the year.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 09, 2021 21:33 UTC