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Bolster booster campaign - DOH
By Nidz Godino
"Instead of wider vaccination rollout, we will instead reach out to the communities so that we could increase vaccine take-up," Department of Health (DoH) Officer in Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a briefing in Manila government will launch major campaign to improve booster coverage that targets at least 23 million more Filipinos starting next week.
Called "Pinas Lakas," the new campaign will be launched on July 26, with President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. taking lead in convincing Filipinos to get their booster shots.
Vergeire said program aims to administer boosters to 90 percent of senior citizens and 50 percent of target population in the remaining 80 days of the first 100 days of the new administration.
She added that campaign will target around 397,000 doses of vaccines per day to reach 39 million boosted individuals before end of administration's first 100 days in October.
So far, 71.4 million have received their primary series, and 15.7 million have received their booster shots.
The campaign comes as country continues to report additional subvariant cases, with 816 new detections of highly infectious BA.5 subvariant, 42 additional BA.4 and 52 additional BA.2.12.1 cases in the country.
Covid-19 weekly cases continue to rise as well, with an average of 2,259 cases reported on average during the week ending July 19, of which, 900 cases were reported in Metro Manila alone.
Vergeire said even with sustained increase in Covid-19 cases and admissions in hospitals, most of them remain mild and asymptomatic.
She added that while Omicron in general does not lead to severe disease, some fully vaccinated individuals who have not yet received their booster shots may experience severe symptoms due to variant.
"Let us remember that since Omicron arrived in the country, it has affected our vaccines, that is why we are urging everyone to receive their boosters because if you receive your first booster shots, the decreased protection from Omicron will increase by as much as 85 percent," Vergeire said.
She said DoH is now studying possibility of redefining status of fully vaccinated to include those who received their booster shots. But she added that this will be studied at the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases level.
The official said there is possibility that restrictions will be lessened once "wall of immunity" due to vaccinations have been reached, but there is no final consensus yet on which restrictions will be loosened.
Vergeire has appointed DoH Assistant Secretary Nestor Santiago of the Field Implementation and Coordination Team as the new incident manager of the National Vaccination Operations Center, while OIC Undersecretary Beverly Lorraine Ho will be the deputy spokesman.
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