Philippines cuts target for ambitious three-day COVID-19 vaccination sprint

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MANILA: The Philippines has slashed its inoculation target for an ambitious three-day national vaccination push due to a shortage of supplies and other logistical challenges, authorities said on Saturday (Nov 27). The Southeast Asian nation is facing the region\u0027s second-highest COVID-19 infections and deat

MANILA: The Philippines has slashed its inoculation target for an ambitious three-day national vaccination push due to a shortage of supplies and other logistical challenges, authorities said on Saturday .

Target vaccination output for the Nov 29 to Dec 1"National Vaccination Days" was cut to nine million from 15 million, the national task force said in a statement. The targeted three million shots a day is nearly four times the country's 829,000 average daily doses for November. To achieve its goal of inoculating 54 million Filipinos by year-end, the government will hold another three-day national inoculation event from Dec 15 to 17.

 

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