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The Philippines has reached another milestone in its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic response as it breached four million doses of administered vaccines, the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 announced Sunday, May 23. A total of 4,097,425 doses were injected as of May 22, data from
Published May 10, 2021, 2:29 PM
Fully vaccinated Filipinos will still need to wear masks and observe physical distancing, an expert said on Monday, May 10.
Dr. Lulu Bravo, Executive Director of the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination, said in an interview with DZBB reminded those who completed their vaccination to still follow minimum health protocols such as wearing face masks and face shields, hand-washing, and observing at least one meter distance.
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“Ang ating pagbabakuna ay nagsisimula pa lang, hindi pa natin kayang abutin yung nagawa ng Israel na 80 percent ng kanilang population. Ang problema kasi hindi pa tayo nakakarating sa ganung kadaming nabakunahan, so marami pa rin sa atin ang pwedeng maka-transmit ng infection (Our vaccination is just starting, we haven’t able to reach what Israel has achieved, with 80 percent of its population getting inoculated. The problem is that we haven’t yet reached that many vaccinated, so many of us can
Published May 10, 2021, 9:58 PM
The start of the general public’s inoculation against the dreaded coronavirus disease (COVID-19) could happen earlier by one or two months as previously thought.
Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. attends President Duterte’s “Talk to the Nation” address on May 10, 2021. (Screenshot from RTVM Facebook live)
Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., vaccine czar and chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19, reported this to President Duterte during the latter’s “Talk to the Nation” address on Monday night, May 10, as he cited the positive output in the delivery of vaccines to the Philippines.
“With the output ng ating deliveries, we are very confident na by June or July we can have a target output na at least mayroong 25 million vaccines. Once nakuha ‘yan, magiging literal na po ang vaccination, meaning we can already have the vaccination of the general public (With our delivery output, we are very confident that we can ha