15.3M doses of COVID-19 vaccines expiring in next 7 months

The 15 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines that will go to waste in the next seven months should serve as a lesson on procurement practices in the government, Maria Rosario Vergeire, officer in charge of the Department of Health, said in a briefing. /PDI

“We need to plan carefully so we can learn from the past issues [and] be able to improve on our procurement practices,” Vergeire said.

But Vergeire clarified that of the 15.3 million jabs, almost 7 million were in “quarantine” while the DOH waits for the Food and Drug Administration and vaccine manufacturers to decide whether their shelf life could be extended. From March 6 to March 12, there were a total of 938 cases, or a daily average of 140 cases, a 7-percent increase compared to the previous week’s 130 cases.

Among those hospitalized, 2,916 or 17.1 percent were in non-intensive care units beds, while 265 or 13.4 percent were admitted to the ICU.A total of 58 fatalities were confirmed in the recent week but only one of them occurred this month. The rest were backlogs from as early as March 2021.

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