The DOH also said it would deploy medical experts to help convince more people to get themselves inoculated, amid uncertainty among the public on the safety of vaccines as shown by a recent Social Weather Stations survey.
“The priority now is our partnership with the private sector, wherein they will open their own massive vaccination sites. They will deploy their own health-care workers and they will help us in the vaccination,” she said. The NTF on Saturday reported a total of 229,769 vaccine doses administered on May 20 alone—the highest single-day record since the drive began in March.
But the survey also found 51 percent of the respondents to be confident about the government’s evaluation of the vaccines, 17 percent said they were not confident and 31 percent were uncertain. To build more trust in the vaccines, “we are now trying to deploy our experts so that they could be the ones to explain to the public the importance of the vaccines and how safe these are,” the health official added.The country logged an additional 6,831 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the highest daily uptick in almost two weeks, or since May 11.