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COVID-19: Number of fully vaccinated Filipinos now at 61 million

The Philippines has administered 130,741,152 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine while 61,058,862 Filipinos are fully vaccinated.

The National Task Force (NTF) data has shown that 52,262 children aged 5 to 11 years old have also received their first dose of the reformulated Pfizer jabs and 8,011,994 have got booster shots.

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NTF chief implementer and vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said vaccines would help in the revival of the country’s economy.

For this month alone, the country received 5,906,550 Covid-19 doses, including the reformulated doses for the youngest age group while total acquired vaccines, both procured and donated, have reached 222,463,020 doses, nearly a year since the first shipment of 600,000 Sinovac doses donated by China arrived on Feb. 28, 2021.

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