A GOVERNMENT official has urged Cebuanos to throw away their worries about the supplies of Covid-19 vaccines, saying there will be enough vaccines for individuals who want to be inoculated.
This was the assurance made by Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, co-chairman of the national Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases who visited Cebu on Monday, May 31, 2021, for the council meeting of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP–Laban), the party of President Rodrigo Duterte.
The supply of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in Cebu City is set to run out this week, depending on the turnout of the city residents who would avail themselves of the vaccination.
Nograles said millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccine purchased by the national government will gradually arrive in the country from June to December 2021.
In a separate interview, National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. said one million doses of the Sinovac vaccine and 2.2 million doses of Pfizer are expected to arrive in the month of June.
Galvez said 5,120,023 doses have been administered.
He said they are hoping to inoculate around 10 million individuals in June. The target is to fully vaccinate 50 to 70 million people before the year ends in order to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19.