The government has sufficient supply of anti-Covid doses that could last until next month.
During the public address of President Duterte on Monday, National Task Force Against Covid-19 Carlito Galvez Jr. disclosed they currently have a reserved stockpile of 12.8 million jabs.
He said these doses are currently stored in warehouses and will be deployed to their target local government units (LGU).
“This 12.8 million doses will be good for 32 days if we will administer an average of 400,000 per day,” Galvez said.
“So we will not be worried for the month of August since we have ample supply [of vaccines]. What we are now looking for [is the supply] for September,” he added.
With the sufficient supply of jabs, the vaccine czar said they are now poised to exceed the number of doses they administered last month.
As of Monday, he said, they have already administered 4.3 million doses this month, which is already close to the 5.4 million they accomplished last June.
Since the government started its Covid-19 vaccination drive last March, the government was already able to administer 15.1 million doses.
Of which, 10.4 million were used for first dose, while the other 4.7 million were utilized as second dose. 30