MANILA, Philippines — The country’s target of reaching herd immunity against the deadly COVID-19 disease may extend to January 2022 “at the most,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Friday.
Duque, however, said that “all these depends on the adequacy of the supply” although if 500,000 people will be inoculated per day, vaccinating 70 million individuals for their first doses will only take 140 days.
It must be noted that some vaccines require a four-week interval between the first and second dose while AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots require an interval of 12 weeks.
To achieve herd immunity, around 70 percent of the population should be vaccinated.
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