‘For a happy Christmas’: PH raises daily vaccination target to 1.5 million jabs

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="People flock to the Dapitan Arcade in Quezon City to purchase Christmas decorations on October 19, 2021 days after the capital region was put under the looser quarantine Alert Level 3 which allows for the opening of more business establishments. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/10/19/20211019-covid-christmas-decor-dapitan-arcade-jc-11.jpg"/><figcaption>People flock to the Dapitan Arcade in Quezon City to purchase Christmas decorations on October 19, 2021 days after the capital region was put under the looser quarantine Alert Level 3 which allows for the opening of more business establishments. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - The Philippine government wants to immunize at least 1.5 million Filipinos daily before Christmas.</p><p>According to Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., the government is raising its daily vaccination target to that number to achieve a safe Christmas.</p><p>&quot;We are now raising our daily target to 1.5 million a day in order to achieve a happy Christmas this year,&quot; Galvez said in a taped public briefing aired late Monday.</p><p>The government also wants to vaccinate at least 50 million of the priority population by Christmas.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Galvez discusses how the Philippines will recalibrate its vaccination strategies<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19VaccinePH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19VaccinePH</a> <a href="https://t.co/KYBe5Qrl0i">pic.twitter.com/KYBe5Qrl0i</a></p>— ABS-CBN News (@ABSCBNNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/1450496679526875137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2021</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>At least 24,498,753 people were fully vaccinated as of Monday, representing 31.76 percent of the target.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/10/19/21/philippines-fully-vaccinates-24-million-vs-covid-19">Philippines completes 24 million COVID-19 vaccinations</a></li></ul><p>Galvez did not mention the average daily vaccination rate, but data from <a href="https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/philippines/" target="_blank">Reuters</a> showed the Philippines averaged about 374,000 doses daily. </p><p>As of Tuesday, the Philippines has a total of 2,731,735 COVID-19 cases, of which 63,637 are active.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/19/21/ph-logs-4496-new-covid-19-cases-due-to-low-lab-output">PH reports 4,496 new COVID-19 cases, cites low laboratory output</a></li></ul><div class="infogram-embed" data-id="_/yFVE69R1WlSdqY3aCsBF" data-title="COVID-19 VACCINE TRACKER PH" data-type="interactive"> </div><script type="text/javascript">!function(e,i,n,s){var t='InfogramEmbeds',d=e.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement('script');o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src='https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js',d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,'infogram-async');</script>

The government also wants to vaccinate at least 50 million of the priority population by Christmas.

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‘For a happy Christmas’: PH raises daily vaccination target to 1.5 million jabs

‘For a happy Christmas’: PH raises daily vaccination target to 1.5 million jabs

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Published Oct 20, 2021 04:10 AM PHT

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