A local health worker in Alfonso, Cavite administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a resident at Alfonso Central Elementary School in Barangay Poblacion on Dec. 21, 2021. Photo by Edd Gumban, The Philippine STAR
Some 48.6 million Filipinos have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Dec. 28, over five million short of the Duterte administration’s yearend target. Acting presidential spokesman Karlo Nograles on Friday, Dec. 31, added that an estimated 1.5 million seniors have not been vaccinated against the virus.
“If they’re stressing that our senior citizens are the most vulnerable to the risk posed by severe and critical COVID-19, for perspective, this 1.5 million could fill our hospitals if they contracted COVID-19,” Nograles said, as he urged the country’s seniors to get vaccinated as soon as possible due to the threat of the Omicron variant.Nograles said the country’s COVID-19 positivity rate rose to 6.6 percent, higher than the five percent indicator set by the World Health Organization.
“We cannot sugarcoat this. This is not how we want to start the year 2022. We know everyone wants to make COVID-19 surges a thing of the past and this is possible only if we welcome 2022 conscious that we should keep our masks on, wash our hands, maintain social distance and please get vaccinated,” Nograles said.
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