Filipinos were urged to get the coronavirus disease vaccine, including China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd., as soon as possible since it is a moral obligation that needs to be fulfilled to collectively defeat the threat of the pandemic, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said Monday, March 1, as the country officially began its rollout of the vaccination program.
Galvez said that the public should no longer wait for the “best vaccine,” seemingly referring to other brands with higher efficacy ratings. Sinovac reportedly registered an efficacy rate of 65.3 to 91.2 percent based on vaccinations in Indonesia and Turkey although it had a lower rating of 50.4 percent when administered to healthcare workers in Brazil.
Also included in the shipment are 3.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the Covax facility, of which the first batch consisted of 525,600 doses was originally scheduled to be delivered on March 1 but was delayed by one week due to supply shortage and logistical problems.
and providing the people with most beneficial vaccine at the earliest given time is the moral obligation of those in the government
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