176-M COVID-19 vaccine shots already administered in 78 countries, reveals Villanueva

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Senator Joel Villanueva on Tuesday co-sponsored the COVID-19 Vaccination Program Act of 2021 allowing local government units and private entities to purchase vaccines in cooperation with the Departme

nt of Health and the National Task Force Against COVID-19. Villanueva, chairman of the Senate labor committee, said not all LGUs and private companies have the resources and capability to procure the vaccines but ’we also know that there can be an ‘equity issue’ along the way.

‘’While it is true that richer LGUs with the capacity to pay like Metro Manila cities would be the first to purchase vaccines, we should also remember that Metro Manila is a pandemic hotspot that accounts for about half of our country’s total Covid-19 cases in our country,’’ he pointed out. Villanueva said that as he spoke, more than 176 million shots have already been administered across 78 countries.

‘’The latest estimate was at a rate of 5.99 million doses a day, but not a single shot has reached our shores,’’ he said.But once this measure is passed so that once the vaccines are here, they could easily reach the arms of every Filipino adult who wanted one, Villanueva said.

 

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Mr Senator alam na namin yan.

Sen. Villanueva is looking more and more like his father. :)

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