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PH seeks to vaccinate 90% of population before 2022 elections 

 

Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. announced on Thursday that the government is aiming to achieve the herd immunity target of 90% before the upcoming 2022 national elections.

Galvez said that the government has increased the new herd immunity target of vaccinating 80-90% of the country’s 110 million population. 

“Ang strategic program natin is because of Delta, we have upgraded our threshold to 90% and considering, we have factors of elections, we have to finish that before elections which is February 2022,” Galvez said in a speech.

So far the Philippines has received over 66 million doses of COVID-19. Around 18.5 million Filipinos were fully vaccinated against the virus. 

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