The country’s Covid-19 vaccine wastage is still within the acceptable threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, Nov. 22.
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021.
At present, the WHO set the acceptable rate for vaccine wastage at 25 to 30 percent during this Covid-19 pandemic, said DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire in a press briefing. During the Senate deliberations on the DOH’s budget on Nov. 18, Senator Pia Cayetano reported that 31.3 million doses of vaccines in the country were wasted. The figure represents 12.5 percent of the 250.38 million vaccine doses received and purchased by the government.
“We are seeing more and more that the other countries [are] having this kind of expirations or wastage of vaccines and the other commodities that have been procured nung nag umpisa ang pandemya ,” she added.In a related development, the DOH is set to launch a nationwide special vaccination campaign called “Bakunahang Bayan” on Dec. 5 to 7, said Vergeire.
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