MANILA, Philippines — Persons who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 should just stay at home, President Rodrigo Duterte said amid continuous vaccine hesitancy among Filipinos.
“We cannot force you but then sana kung ayaw niyo magpabakuna, wag na kayo lumabas ng bahay para hindi na kayo maghawa ng ibang tao,” Duterte said in a taped speech aired Tuesday.
(We cannot force you but if you don’t want to be vaccinated, don’t go out of your houses so that you will not infect other people.)
Duterte lamented how these people are not helping solve the crisis and are just prolonging the time for the country to achieve herd immunity.
“Maniwala kayo, Diyos ko po, kasi hindi …
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