Senator Bong Go has reassured the public that deliveries of Covid-19 vaccines remain on track in accordance with the agreed schedules between the government and vaccine manufacturers and suppliers.
The chair of the Senate health committee said the government can expect to fulfill its target to vaccinate 70 million Filipinos by the end of 2021.
This will lower the risk of the virus spreading in communities, workplaces and schools and hopefully lead to the end of the pandemic altogether, he said.
“Tuloy-tuloy ang pagbili ng gobyerno. Hopefully, sa Abril, may five million doses ng bakuna na naka-line up,” Go said.
“Pagdating ng Mayo, mayroong additional na naman. Sana tuloy-tuloy ‘to. By second quarter, marami na ang mabakunahan at target mabakunahan ang 70 million by the end of the year para unti-unti natin ma-attain ang herd immunity,” said Go.
He assured that the government had already secured the necessary amount of doses to vaccinate the country’s frontline healthcare workers.
He stressed that the vaccination priority list issued by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases and the National Task Force Against Covid-19 must be followed amid reports of individuals jumping the vaccine line.
“Mayroon na tayong around 1.5 million [doses] na mga donated. Kalahati nito ay good for 750,000 frontliners. Ang good news, darating na sa Lunes ang mga binili ng gobyerno,” Go said.
“Sasalubungin ni Pangulong [Rodrigo] Duterte ang one million doses ng Sinovac. Mayroon pa mga 900,000 na darating mula sa COVAX Facility soon. Mag-tototal ito ng (around) 3.4 million [doses] so enough ito sa frontliners natin,” he added.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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