(File photo) MANILA - A total of 3.7 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines has been administered since the second leg of Bayanihan Bakunahan started on December 15, a health official said Tuesday. "Nakabawi tayo kahapon, naka-1,039,000 tayong doses kahapon, for a total simula noong Dec 15 ng 3.7 million sa buong bansa (We were able to administer more jabs yesterday (Monday), about 1,039,000 doses, for a total of 3.7 million doses from Dec. 15 nationwide," Health Undersecretary and National Vaccination Operations Center (NVOC) Chairperson Myrna Cabotaje reported during a televised public briefing. Cabotaje noted most of the jabs given were second doses of the primary series 2.1 million second doses, 1.1 million first doses, and 289,000 booster shots. "In terms of the sector, marami pa rin ang ating pediatric population, tapos sumunod iyong rest of the adults, tapos iyong mga ibang priority groups ay nababakunahan din (many came from the pediatric population, then the rest
FOR THE PHILIPPINES.A staff of the Department of Health plants the Philippine flag near the boxes containing the Janssen Covid-19 vaccine at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 in Pasay City on Tuesday (Dec. 14, 2021). This latest shipment of 1,778,400 doses of the single-shot vaccine was donated by the governments of Austria and Sweden.(PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler) MANILA - More vaccine donations from European countries have continued to pour into the country, with the latest shipment of 3,789,600 doses of the Janssen vaccine from Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands arriving on Tuesday. In an interview at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Swedish Ambassador to the Philippines Annika Thanborg said it was a pleasure for her to personally witness the arrival of the vaccines, about 1,512,000 doses, donated by her country through the COVAX Facility. "We will also donate at least six million non-earmarked vaccine doses in 2021, 1.5 million of these doses