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A health worker wearing a protective suit is disinfected inside a portable tent outside the Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center during an enhanced community quarantine to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Manila, Philippines, April 27, 2020. - AP
“We encourage the country to prepare its regulatory processes, in terms of the assessment and evaluation of the vaccine to help fast-track the registration of the vaccine. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said a total of 932 people had recovered from Covid-19 with the recovery of 70 more patients.Nearly 70 per cent of those who succumbed to the severe respiratory disease, or 353 patients, belonged to the elderly population, most of whom were not vaccinated against influenza and pneumonia.
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