MANILA, Philippines — Over 100 million Filipinos are estimated to be vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) if each vaccine that the government would buy is priced at P600, Senator Sonny Angara said Thursday.
The budget that was approved by Congress allots P72.5 billion for the vaccines, while the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act or Bayanihan 2 allots another P10 billion for the inoculation drive.
“So if you add that to the P72.5 billion here in the 2021 budget, you are talking about P82.5 billion, and if you are talking about a vaccine that you can obtain at around P600, you are talking about over 100 million persons getting vaccinated,” Angara, …
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