Some 31.3 million individuals could have rolled up their sleeves and been inoculated from COVID-19, but instead these vaccines were wasted as reported by the DOH on Thursday, November 17.
MANILA, Philippines – Some 31.3 million individuals could have rolled up their sleeves and been inoculated from COVID-19, but instead these vaccines were wasted as reported by the Department of Health on Thursday, November 17.
. It was almost 11 million higher than the reported wasted vaccines in August, which was at 20.7 million doses or 10% of the total vaccine stockpile. Cayetano, however, pointed out that vaccine wastage did not actually increase because it was only recently that DOH was able to get the full picture of the doses that had gone to waste.
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