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(File photo) MANILA - The Philippines is on track to achieve its target to inoculate up to 50 percent of the general population by yearend, President Rodrigo Duterte said. Duterte made the remarks in his taped Talk to the People, as he trumpeted the government's success in achieving its goal of administrating at least 55 million doses of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine in October. He attributed the success of the government's intensified vaccination drive to the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines that "came in droves." "I am happy to report that we exceeded our ta...

(PNA photo by Gil Calinga) MANILA - A total of 60,406,424 doses of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine have been administered nationwide since the rollout began in March, the Department of Health (DOH) said Wednesday. Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje said the National Capital Region has the highest number of fully vaccinated individuals at 8,616,362 or 88.13 percent of its 13,966,233 population. It is followed by the Cordillera Administrative Region with 502,283 fully vaccinated individuals or 39.37 percent of its 1,822,719 population. Latest data from the National Vaccines Operati...

National Task Force against Covid-19 chief implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. (Presidential photo) MANILA - The government is eyeing to achieve its targeted average daily vaccination rate of at least 1 million up to 1.5 million doses beginning Nov. 30, National Task Force (NTF) against Covid-19 chief implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said on Wednesday. During the prerecorded Talk to the People of President Rodrigo Duterte aired Wednesday morning, Galvez added the government also targets to administer at least 15 million doses of coronavirus vaccines before the end of this month. T...

MANILA-The country has recorded 894 more individuals who recuperated from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), bringing the recovery count to 2,397,456 as of Saturday. The Department of Health (DOH) also logged an additional 14,786 infections and 164 new fatalities, pushing the total active cases and death toll to 144,061 and 38,656, respectively. The current positivity rate is at 22.1 percent, based on the 68,233 individuals tested on September 30. The new infections raise to 2,580,173 the Philippines' number of confirmed Covid-19 cases since the pandemic started last year. A total of...

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