Vaccination to shift to high gear with more doses available

Now that a more substantial number of vaccines is set to arrive in the country this month – about 9.95 million as per vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. – expect the country’s vaccination rollout to shift to high gear in the third quarter of 2021.

As of Wednesday, June 9, 2021, a total of 6,314,548 doses has been administered since the vaccination program started on March 1. And of this number, 1,681,722 have already gotten their second doses, and about 4.6 million have already been inoculated once.

That’s an average of about 2.1 million doses administered monthly since March for those classified under A1 (health workers), A2 (senior citizens), A3 (those with comorbidities), and, of late, A4 priority group (essential workers and uniformed personnel)

Galvez boldly predicts that this figure will climb to five million a month starting in June.

Aside from the huge volumes of vaccines expected this month, inoculation of essential workers and uniformed personnel, classified under A4, and numbering about 35 million, has started.

With this target, the government hopes to achieve “population protection” and “disease burden reduction” before the fourth quarter of 2021.