— The country should be inoculating over 350,000 persons daily to reach its COVID-19 vaccination target, a health expert said on Monday.
"The basis for the 350,000 is if we started March 1, and we hope to achieve 70% vaccination of the population after a year, let's say February 28, 2022, that's the rate that we should be doing it," epidemiologist Dr. John Wong, who is also part of the national COVID-19 task force's subgroup on data analytics, said in a Palace briefing.
Since it has also been nearly two months since the immunization drive began and the current figures are still far from the ideal, Wong later on said the 350,000 is now"certainly an underestimate." The government earlier eyed up to 1 million vaccine recipients weekly by April, but it hit a snag when the vaccine supply dwindled. Official data as of April 22 showed only 1.6 million vaccine doses have been administered to around 1.39 million individuals since the rollout began in March.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
+ not being pessimistic but on a reality side I think it will take a year and plus more if vaccine supply is scarce or inadequate...