endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 31) — The government has approved and ratified the Philippine National Deployment and Vaccination Plan for COVID-19 Vaccines and is now set to implement the nationwide immunization campaign to combat the coronavirus. "All implementing agencies of the National Task Force Against COVID-19, all Regional and Local COVID-19 Task Forces, and all Regional and Local COVID-19 Vaccination Operations Centers, Local Task Forces and Local COVID-19 Vaccination Operations Centers are hereby mandated to implement and adopt the said plan," a recent memorandum by the National Task Force against COVID-19 read. The Regional and Local COVID-19 Vaccination Operations Centers are also directed to develop their own deployment and vaccination macro and microplans based on the templates disseminated by the Department of Health.