MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte urged local government units (LGUs) on Monday to use technology and more advanced measures in vaccinating people against COVID-19 to reduce queue time and the risk of exposure to the disease.
“We need to administer the vaccines quickly because we do not [want] a vaccine site to become a spreader event […] Making them queue — that is, to make them line up — for an hour or longer exposes them,” Duterte said.
“Please use technology and advanced approaches to make sure the entire process is more effective,” Duterte said. ‘Don’t make the people suffer and make them line up,” he added, speaking partly in Filipino.
He suggested th…
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