A House leader is urging the national government and other stakeholders to push the daily vaccination rollout of one million Filipinos per day so as to quickly bolster the country’s economic activities and be able to significantly bring down the number of COVID-19 positive cases. 

Deputy Speaker and Valenzuela City 2nd District Representative Eric Martinez made the statement in light of the country’s ongoing economic slump following the heavy-hitting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, specially to small and medium enterprises.

The lawmaker said that Indonesia was able to rollout an average of about 1,702,920 doses each day last week, while Reuters COVID-19 Tracker reported that it's over 1.3 million more than the Philippines’ 428,531, while Thailand landed at about 751,846 jabs daily.

In turn, Indonesia’s daily average infection is decreasing with only 975 cases reported, just 2% of its highest daily average reported on July 18, compared with the Philippines’ 8,437.

Martinez also stressed that supply is no longer a problem as the country's vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said the country is receiving an average of 1.5 million vaccines per day, with more than 14 million doses shipped to the country in the first week of October.

“This is the time that we ramp up our vaccination, with both the public and private sectors heavily involved,” Martinez said, adding that the government even reported of the country having a stock of 30 million doses

Likewise, the Valenzuela City lawmaker is confident that his proposal is very much doable as the country has now reached a steady supply of one million doses a day.

Meanwhile, Martinez also called on the government to bolster its information and dissemination to further encourage people in need to be vaccinated as soon as possible.