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Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the statement despite government data showing that only 1,855,472 individuals have been fully vaccinated as of June 13.
In his press briefing on Monday, June 14, Roque expressed confidence that the government will be able to achieve its goal of population protection before the year ends despite the slow progress in the vaccination program.
“Kaya po (We can achieve it). We do not dispute the percentage and we never claimed na malaki na yung percentage (that the percentage was high already),” he said.
“Yung actual numbers ngayon ay almost 7 million na (The actual number now is almost 7 million now) and that makes us the second-highest number of doses administered in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations),” he added.
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President Duterte is assisted by AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Cirilito Sobejana and Vaccine Czar Carlito Galvez
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“How are you addressing the problem of vaccine hesitancy?”
That was the raging question of the past week. It appears to have been triggered by a controversy involving the top two officials of the land over the issue of an advertising campaign to “convince” the public to go and have themselves vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.
“What vaccine hesitancy are you talking about?” we would say to those who asked us what we thought about the issue. We said that jokingly, of course.
Our view is that the so-called “vaccine hesitancy” phenomenon does not exist in the country, at least not in the level that it is being experienced in places like New York City and elsewhere in the United States. In those places, local government executives are offering “incentives” so that their “hesitant” constituents would go and get the vaccine. “Incentives” include lottery tickets.