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Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Jose Ma. âJoeyâ Concepcion III said that the private sector would prioritize donating 500,000 AstraZeneca doses to the government if deliveries from the COVAX global facility to the Philippine government are delayed.
The Philippines has already received more than 500,000 AstraZeneca doses from the facility, which were used to inoculate medical frontliners. The second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine should be given four to 12 weeks after the first.
Mr. Concepcion leads the Dose of Hope initiative which helped procure AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines through tripartite agreements with the private sector and local governments. Of the doses bought by businesses, half are to go to their employees first and the second half will be donated to the government.
By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News
Published April 21, 2021 11:49am Philippine vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. on Wednesday said a total of 1,353,107 Filipinos have been inoculated against COVID-19 since the official rollout of the vaccination program in March. At the joint meeting of the House Committees on Health and Trade and Industry, Galvez presented government data on the status of the vaccination program. He said a total of 1,562,563 vaccines were already administered to individuals. The breakdown of those inoculated are as follows: A1 (health workers) - 989,703 A2 (senior citizens) - 132,948 A3 (persons with comorbidities) - 180,315 The data presented was as of April 20, Tuesday.