Philippines begins to deploy second booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine

Nearly 61% of the country’s 110 million people Philippines have been vaccinated against COVID-19, while nearly 13 million people have been booster shot First, Philippine Government data shows.

Of the 690,000 people in the most vulnerable group, between 7,000 and 13,000 have been given priority injections fourth dose of vaccine to enhance protection against COVID-19 and variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque said on a public forum: “Given the increasing vaccination coverage, while COVID-19 remains present, for the foreseeable future we can consider COVID-19 as an endemic disease”.

Philippines administers second booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine to immunocompromised adults. (Photo: Reuters)

In Asia, some countries have deployed a second booster vaccine such as South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore to prevent COVID-19 infection, especially in the elderly, as these countries will lifted most of the remaining epidemic prevention restrictions this week.

The Philippines has been cautious about reopening, despite efforts to revive an economy that shrank by more than 9% in 2020, once one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies before the pandemic.

With 3.68 million cases of COVID-19 and more than 60,000 deaths, the Philippines has suffered one of the worst COVID-19 crises in Southeast Asia, although the number of daily new infections has decreased. significantly, now averaging 207 cases per day, according to a Reuters global data-monitoring program.

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