The government is now eyeing to ramp up the government’s Covid-19 vaccination drive amid recent reports of rising virus cases.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. made the pronouncement when asked about the government’s intervention to stop the spread of Covid-19.
“We will have to conduct again, especially for young people, we’ll have to conduct again a vaccination push to reduce cases,” Marcos said in an interview with the media onboard PR 001 en route to Washington D.C. for an official working visit.Of which, 7 million were “quarantined” pending an assessment from the Food and Drug Administration if their shelf life can be extended, while the remaining 8 million are set to expire from March to October.
“So we’ll look at it. We will check if there is guidance from the IATF [Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases] and the DOH on this,” Marcos said.
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