MANILA, Philippines — Sixty-nine percent of the over 193,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines were allocated to Metro Manila, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday.
“We have a total of 69 percent of the 193,000 Pfizer vaccines allocated here in the National Capital Region. Among those LGUs with the highest allocations across the local governments would be Pasig, Marikina, Quezon City, Mandaluyong, and San Juan,” Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in an online press briefing.
According to Vergeire, the Pfizer vaccines were allocated based on the local government units’ capacity to store the product.
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