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Medical workers help raise public trust in vaccines
MANILA – The level of public trust and confidence in the national coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination campaign is increasing, noted National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr., thanks to medical workers who immediately availed of CoronaVac during the initial days of the rollout.
Galvez, also the country’s vaccine czar, said on Monday night in his report to President Rodrigo Duterte, that Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines are among the top five Covid-19 jabs being utilized worldwide.
“Noong nagkaroon po tayo ng vaccination ng ating mga director ng mga hospital, tumaas po ang level ng kanilang confidence (When we had our vaccination of various hospitals’ directors, the public’s confidence rose),” Galvez said.
“In fact, doon sa Northern Mindanao Medical Center, almost — halos 100 percent — ‘yung nagpapabakuna na (In fact, almost 100 percent are being vaccinated at the Northern Mindanao Medical Center),” he said.
British-Swedish company AstraZeneca’s vaccines were approved for public use in 67 countries, while 15 countries use the China Sinovac-made CoronaVac.
To date, the country has already used over 44,000 vaccine doses for healthcare workers since the nationwide inoculation rollout last week, Galvez said.
“Kung makikita natin ang ating global vaccination, meron na tayong 300 million plus. At ngayon po, tumaas po ang ating daily rate na 7 million. And then nakakatuwa po ay nakasama na po ang Pilipinas sa numero at meron na po tayong more or less 44,000 doses na na-administer (For the global vaccination, we already have 300 million plus. Right now, our daily rate has increased to 7 million. I’m glad to report that the Philippines is now included in the number. We already have more or less 44,000 doses that were administered),” he said.
The Philippines is slated to receive 20 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from different sources between April to June as the government targets to vaccinate some 70 million Filipinos this year.
