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Nearly 66M Filipinos fully vaxxed, 12M with Covid-19 boosters
MANILA – A total of 65,992,980 Filipinos are now fully vaccinated against coronavirus disease (Covid-19) nationwide, with 12,075,001 eligible individuals having booster shots or additional protection, as of Friday.
Based on the latest data from the National Covid-19 Vaccination dashboard, the Philippines has so far administered a total of 142,489,795 doses, with 71,241,203 jabs used as first doses, or 79.15 percent of the government’s target vaccinees for population protection.
Meanwhile, individuals who received the two primary vaccine series represent 73.32 percent of the 80 percent or 90,005,357 total population of Filipinos in the country.
A total of 8,972,409 minors ages 12-17 years old are also fully protected against the disease and 2,126,651 belonging to the pediatric aged group 5-11 received at least one dose of reformulated Covid-19 vaccine, with 933,404 of them fully vaccinated.
Also, a total of 6,609,619 senior citizens have completed their two primary series to date.
The government targets to complete the primary doses for 90 million adult Filipinos before the end of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term on June 30.
Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., National Task Force Against Covid-19 chief implementer, earlier cited the need to further boost the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination program, particularly the administration of booster shots, in order to achieve the country’s goal of pushing total economic recovery.
“We will be needing other strategies to gather more vaccinees,” he said.
The government has been intensifying its efforts to make the Covid-19 vaccines more accessible to the people such as house-to-house inoculation for the vulnerable sectors, workplace vaccination efforts, and special vaccination drives in areas that are still lagging in their vaccination coverage.
Mariel Ann Delator Obero
April 1, 2022 at 11:42 AM
Boosters are very essential to boost or prolong the effectiveness of the vaccines. Government must exert more effort to educate people on why they should be vaccinated and boosted. As for me, I was fully vaccinated on October 12, 2022.. I am just waiting for April 12 to get my booster shots because I followed the 6 months, not the 2-3 months. Proud Sinovac!
Vee-Jay Lee
April 3, 2022 at 2:38 AM
This is good news for us that the government really pushing new strategies to implement the vaccination.
Nicole Angeles
April 5, 2022 at 7:26 PM
I am fully vaccinated but not yet got booster because it is hard to go to vaccination sites, So government should make a plan for a better and accessible vaccination sites so that people could easily go and got a vaccine.And for that the roll out of vaccine would be more faster and more people will get vaccinated. Also encourage people to get covid 19 vaccine so that we can achieve the heard immunity.
Mary Joy Valdevieso
April 7, 2022 at 9:29 PM
It’s a good news knowing that almost all of the Filipinos are already fully vaccinated. By this we can increase the possibility of economy recovery. The government is doing their best to convince and persuade the citizens to be vaccinated because by this at least we can assure the safety of everyone, but of course we still need to follow safety precautions. We are all aware that not 100% of the Filipinos are willing to be vaccinated because some of them don’t trust vaccines and believe that COVID-19 is just a normal kind of disease, yes some people think that way and we can’t deny it. I hope these people would realize the real essence of vaccines. I hope the government won’t force them, but instead educate them until they are the one who will take the initiative to get vaccinated. The safety of everyone is the main priority here.