MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) has spent around P400 million for the hiring of more than 3,000 vaccinators whose contracts will end in June. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire assured, however, that the DOH has already secured funding to rehire the vaccinators once their contracts end next month. (We have hired additional vaccinators, and we have spent P400 million for the more than 3,000 vaccinators we have hired whose contracts will end in June.) (We can say that we have enough vaccination sites and healthcare workers who will administer the vaccines to our countrymen.) Of the country’s current vaccine supply, nearly 3.3 million doses have been administered, composed of 2.5 million doses given as first dose and 786,528 provided as second dose, according to the NTF data.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 21, 2021 06:00 UTC