MANILA, Philippines — Over 44,000 vaccine doses against COVID-19 have so far been administered in the Philippines since it started its immunization program last week, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., the vaccine czar, said Monday in a pre-recorded briefing with President Rodrigo Duterte.
According to Galvez, the global vaccination figure has reached 300 million, with seven million people being vaccinated per day.
“We are happy that the Philippines is part of those numbers and that we have already administered more or less 44,000 doses,” he said, speaking partly in Filipino.
Galvez said many people were requesting “almost every day” allocations of the vaccines, an indication of th…
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