MANILA, Philippines — It will take three to five years before the Philippines can vaccinate its target of 60 million Filipinos against COVID-19, vaccine czar and pandemic response chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. said Wednesday.
“We will do this in a three- to five-year period kasi po ang kaya lang natin ma-vaccinate is more or less 20 to 30 million a year,” Galvez said in a televised briefing.
(We will do this in a three to five year period because we can only vaccinate more or less 20 to 30 million in a year.)
The country is targeting to vaccine 50 to 60 percent of its population or 60 million Filipinos to achieve herd immunity wherein enough people in a specific area ar…
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