MANILA, Philippines — The OCTA Research group urged the government on Wednesday to deploy 90 percent of the vaccine supply to Metro Manila in order to significantly reduce the number of COVID-19 cases in the country.
Citing data from the National Task Force against COVID-19, OCTA Research fellow Fr. Nicanor Austriaco O.P. told the Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum that 65 percent of the vaccine supply in the country is being sent to Metro Manila, while the remaining 35 percent are distributed to the rest of the country.
He said that if all the vaccine doses will be deployed to Metro Manila, the number of active COVID-19 cases in the country would be reduced by half.
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