MANILA, Philippines — The government should be doing around 500,000 COVID-19 vaccinations daily by the third quarter of 2021 as more doses are set to arrive in the country from various sources, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., the country’s vaccine manager, said during the taped briefing with President Rodrigo Duterte that aired Monday night.
“We’re hoping that in the third quarter we will go up to 500,000 [injections] per day,” Galvez said, speaking partly in Filipino. “We’re like a vehicle, Mr. President. In March and in April, we were like in first and second gear. In May, we went into third a bit.”
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