MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is “so far off-target” in achieving herd immunity against COVID-19 by 2021, Vice President Leni Robredo said as she proposed the vaccination of 256,993 people in the country daily.
“We are so far off the target at the rate we are going now,” Robredo said in a Facebook post on Sunday.
The Vice President noted that the government targets to achieve herd immunity, or the vaccination of 70 percent of the country’s population, by the end of the year.
“Herd immunity is 70% of the population. 70% of 105 [million] people is 73,500,000. If we have about 286 remaining days in 2021, we should inoculate 256,993 people per day,” she added…
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