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A recent survey of the Octa Research Group indicated that only 46% of adult Filipinos are willing to be inoculated with a vaccine that would protect them against serious illnesses caused by the coronavirus. Octa is a polling and research group of experienced experts and academics with interdisciplinary backgrounds.
The resistance to anti-coronavirus vaccine has tremendous implications on the Department of Health’s objective of inoculating at least 70% of the population to achieve herd immunity when the great majority of the people have been immunized to the coronavirus, thus preventing its further spread. With only 46% immunized to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), the other half of the population remains vulnerable to the coronavirus, the number of deaths is likely to rise.
Published March 1, 2021, 1:30 PM
Some healthcare workers and several top-ranking government officials were among the first recipients of the authorized vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country.
A health worker receives the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during the first phase of vaccinations for health workers at Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital, formerly Tala Sanitarium, in Caloocan City Monday (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN)
Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Director Dr. Gerardo Legaspi became the first official recipient of the Chinese-made vaccine, CoronaVac, during the ceremonial vaccination at PGH in Manila on Monday, March 1.
The Department Health (DOH) said that Legaspi became the first healthcare worker in the country to be inoculated against COVID-19 using the vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech.
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“Nakikita natin sa social na there are people who are excited,” Galvez said on Monday night's televised Cabinet briefing presided by President Rodrigo Duterte.The vaccine czar added he also received text messages seeking doses of the vaccine.