Davao City — Residents who received first dpse vaccine of Sputnik V vaccine still awaits the delivery for the second dose of the vaccine.
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio in an interview with the city government’s radio DCDR on Monday, September 13, 2021, said “I already asked teh Department of Health about it, and they told me there is delay in the delivery of the Gamaleya vaccine.”
The Mayor was reacting to questions raised by residents who received the first dose but has yet to be called for their second dose.
Sputnik V is among those authorized by the FDA for emergency use, together with Sputnik Light, a single dose vaccine also developed by Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute.
Earlier on, the The Department of Health (DOH) assured those who have received their first dose that they could wait up to six months for the second shot.
“The first dose of Sputnik can actually confer a high efficacy rate. I think they’re reporting it at already 80 percent efficacy rate,” Dr. Alethea de Guzman, director of the Epidemiology Bureau of the DOH, said last week.
