About 12.7 million coronavirus vaccines have been given out as of July 8, according to Philippine health authorities.
Of the total, 9.4 million were first doses and 3.2 million were second doses, data from the Department of Health (DoH) showed.
Fully vaccinated individuals consist of more than 1.16 million health workers, 861,560 seniors, about one million seriously ill people, and 103,990 essential workers, it said.
More than 14,300 outbound migrant Filipino workers and families of healthcare workers, and 24,492 indigent people have also completed their coronavirus vaccination, it added.
The Philippines on Thursday night took delivery of more than a million AstraZeneca doses donated by the Japanese government.
The country is set to receive about two million more AstraZeneca doses from a global initiative for equal access this week. About 170,00 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia are also set to arrive this week.
The government expects 70 million Filipinos to get their first vaccine dose by November, vaccine czar Carlito G. Galvez, Jr. said on Thursday.
The Philippines aims to inoculate at least 500,000 people daily in Metro Manila, Rizal, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Pampanga, Metro Cebu, and Metro Davao to achieve herd immunity by Nov. 27.
5,881 NEW COVID CASES
The DoH reported 5,881 new coronavirus infections on Friday, bringing the total number of people who have been infected since the start of the pandemic to 1.46 million.
The death toll rose to 25,720 after 70 more patients died, while recoveries increased by 3,003 to 1.38 million, it said in a bulletin.
There were 51,902 active cases, 90.3% of which were classified as mild, 4.4% asymptomatic, 2.2% severe, 1.56% moderate, and 1.5% were classified as critical.
The agency said 10 duplicates had been removed from the tally, seven of which were tagged as recoveries. One case was found to have tested negative and has been removed from the total case count, it added.
The DoH said 28 cases previously tagged as recoveries have been reclassified as active cases, and 34 cases previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths.
It said that while all labs were operational on July 7, five labs were not able to submit their data. — Kyle Aristophere Atienza