Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. says supply of COVID-19 vaccines is not an issue in the country anymore as it is on track to reach a total of 100 million doses before the end of October.
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. has declared that supply of COVID-1 9 vaccine is not a problem in the country anymore.
It was the biggest vaccine delivery compared to previous months, according to him. It included some 7.3 million doses from the World Health Organization-led COVAX facility. However, the government's immunization program is currently being challenged in terms of logistics in distribution of COVID-19 shots, he said.Ang ating sinasabi nga po nakikita na marami tayong naka[Translation: Currently our problem is throughput. What we are saying is many are in the stockpile more or less 39 million.]
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