Nearly 700,000 AstraZeneca shots arrive in PH

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The country received a shipment from AstraZeneca carrying 698,600 COVID-19 vaccine doses on Friday.

This brings the total number of vaccines procured by the private sector close to four million doses, according to presidential adviser for entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion. He added the deliveries from AstraZeneca will accelerate towards the Christmas season and may be completed before the second quarter of 2022.

An additional 1,014,390 Pfizer doses are set to arrive later in the evening, which will be delivered to Cebu and Davao. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said the country's total vaccine supply is expected to breach 100 million doses by the end of the month. He earlier said supply is no longer an issue, but admitted that logistics woes continue to hound the government's national vaccination program. Despite these challenges, the government recalibrated its vaccination strategy to hike the target shots administered daily to 1.5 million.

Over 25 million individuals have received full protection from COVID-19 since the start of the vaccination program in March. However, this is still far from the revised 90% target to achieve the so-called herd immunity.

 

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Turbo Vax! Educate people, have influencers for people to get the JABS!

Who pays for all this s.h.i.t......With ph government indebted 200 trillion .....Bankruptcy is here......Civil War imminent....WW3 will end this circus

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