Published May 4, 2021, 2:01 PM There is “no other solution” to the COVID-19 pandemic but the vaccines, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Secretary Joey Concepcion said on Tuesday, May 4, adding that the business community might be pushed to support Congress on making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory in the country. Concepcion, Go Negosyo founder and one of President Duterte’s trusted advisers, stressed the importance of achieving herd immunity, or the vaccination of at least 70 to 80 million Filipinos, to stop businesses from going under. A man receives a coronavirus vaccine shot from a health worker in Taguig City on April 29, 2021 (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) “The only solution to our pandemic problem, in our economic problem, is the vaccine. Every citizen has to do their civic duty to take the vaccine. That’s the only way. There is no other solution,” he said during the Laging Handa public briefing.