PH administers 52.7M COVID vaccine doses

As of Tuesday, the Philippines has administered a total of 52.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines nationwide.

More than 24.4 million individuals, representing 31.76 percent of the eligible population, are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease.

Of the total doses administered, 28.2 million were given as first doses.

According to NTF chief implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., vaccine supply is no longer an issue, with around 38 million doses in government warehouses.

The government is targeting to scale up its vaccination rollout to 1.5 million jabs a day to inoculate at least 50 percent of the country's target population by yearend.

Galvez noted that the current issue is related to logistics, specifically the seven to nine days it takes to deliver vaccines from warehouses to centers.