Department of Health (DOH) officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire on Monday appealed to the private sector not to procure doses of COVID-19 bivalent vaccines yet to avoid further vaccine wastage.
“We are strongly advising the private sector at this point to just rely on the national government’s procurement so that we can prevent further wastage of our vaccines since we still have a lot of these monovalent vaccines in the country which we can use as boosters for our population,” Vergeire said in an interview on CNN Philippines.
But Vergeire noted that around 26 million COVID-19 vaccines remain unused. Of these unused vaccines, around 16 million doses are in the national warehouse, while 10 million have been distributed to various local government units.Meanwhile, the DOH is expecting around one million doses of bivalent COVID-19 Pfizer vaccines donated by the COVAX facility to arrive by the end of March.
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