The government still needs 42.6 million COVID-19 shots to address the supply and demand gap, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said.42.6 million between supply and demand,” Galvez said during President Rodrigo Duterte’s weekly address, noting that they are expecting to meet demand over supply by October.
[Translation: As we can see, there is a big gap... we have a 42.6 million gap between supply and demand.] Galvez explained that around 70.8 million is the projected number of Filipinos eligible for vaccination. Of this, around 59.92 million belong to the targeted population, or those from A1 to A5 priority groups.
However, the government has so far only received over 31 million vaccine doses, which translate to two doses for 17.3 million persons. This already includes more than 3 million shots of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
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