Palace not keen on segregating vaccinated from unvaccinated ones in establishments

Malacañang on Monday said the suggestion to segregate individuals in business establishments depending on whether or not they got vaccinated against COVID-19 cannot be implemented at this time.

Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque was responding to the suggestion of Presidential Adviser for Entreprenuership Joey Concepcion to have such a policy which he said will allow businesses to safely open amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

“We will study all suggestions but we have only been able to vaccinate eight million to date,” Roque said. 

“Hindi pa ito panahon para gawin ‘yang ganyang hakbang. Pag-aaralan natin kapag dumami na ang nabakunahan,” Roque added.

(This is not the time for that. We will study it once the number of vaccinated individuals increase.) 

The Philippines has a supply of at least 12 million COVID-19 vaccine doses.

Of this number, 8,407,342 doses have been administered as of June 20, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday. Of this number, 6,253,400 shots were for the first dose while 2,153,942 were for the second dose.

The highest number of vaccine doses administered in a day was 322,929 doses recorded last June 15. 

The government’s target is to vaccinate 500,000 individuals per day. 

The Philippines has 57,679 active COVID-19 cases as of June 20. 

The DOH said 5,803 new COVID-19 cases were reported on Sunday, raising the country's total tally to 1,359,015. —KG, GMA News