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PH vax wastage remains minimal: NTF

(PNA file photo) MANILA - The Philippines has so far recorded a minimal percentage of Covid-19 vaccine wastage, particularly in areas devastated by typhoons, National Task Force (NTF) against Covid-19 chief Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said Wednesday. In a virtual media forum, Galvez said they are actually expecting at least 5 million Covid-19 vaccines will be spoiled in typhoon-hit areas. "Because of good SOPs that we have, we saw that there is a very minimal wastage during Odette and at the same time with the onslaught of Agaton. We really expect 5 million doses will be spoiled due to Typhoon Odette. But we received reports that only a few jabs were put to waste, more or less 200,000 doses only," Galvez said. Galvez, also the country's vaccine czar, said the government and the Department of Health (DOH) are still evaluating the number of vaccine doses damaged by the recent Tropical Storm Agaton. "We have not yet received reports on that but hopefully-the affected a

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