MANILA, Philippines — To meet its target of inoculating at least half of population this year, the government is targeting to immunize at least 250,000 individuals against COVID-19 every day as soon as its vaccine orders arrive in the third quarter. “Our target is to [vaccinate] roughly 250,000 to 300,000 a day but it depends on the supply that we will get,” Vince Dizon, COVID-19 response deputy chief implementer, said in a briefing Wednesday. The country began inoculating health workers last week using donated Sinovac shots from China and AstraZeneca vaccines from COVAX Facility, but it is not until July when orders paid for by foreign loans will arrive. But the government can only start vaccinating other sectors of the population once all health workers and senior citizens get their shots. While the ordered supplies have yet to arrive, the city opened pre-registration website for those interested to receive COVID-19 vaccines.

Source: Philippine Star March 10, 2021 08:37 UTC