THE number of fully vaccinated individuals in the Philippines increased by 28 percent to 1.54 million in the past week, although inoculations slowed down as fewer vaccination sites reported their data, the National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 reported Monday, June 7, 2021.
As of June 6, a total of 5,965,651 doses have been administered to 4,421,319 individuals, of whom 1,544,332 have also received their second dose.
The average number of doses administered per day decreased by 22 percent to 112,621 in the last seven days to June 6 from 144,402 in the week ending on May 30.
However, only 937 vaccination sites submitted reports to the National Vaccination Operations Center in the past week compared to 1,124 vaccination sites in the previous week.
After two consecutive weeks of administering more than one million doses per week, vaccination sites across the country administered only a total of 788,350 doses in the last seven days to June 6.
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr., in his speech during the kick-off ceremony for the vaccination of priority group A4 Monday, said he believed the vaccination pace will pick up this month with the expected arrival of an additional 10 million doses.
He said the target is to administer an additional four to five million doses this month.
The expected shipments this month include the one million doses of Sinovac vaccine that arrived on Sunday.
An additional 4.5 million doses are also expected from Sinovac this month as well as 100,000 doses of Sputnik V and 250,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine.
Galvez said 2.28 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 2.028 million doses of AstraZeneca, both from Covax, are expected to arrive in the third week of June.
The government targets to administer at least 500,000 doses a day by the third quarter of 2021 and increase this to 740,000 shots daily to achieve herd immunity at least in high-risk urban areas by the end of the year. (Marites Villamor-Ilano / Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo)