YEARENDER: DOH describes 2021 as ‘year of recovery and progress’ amid COVID-19 pandemic

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This prompted the government to place the Greater Manila area to the strictest enhanced community quarantine from March 29 to April 11—until the quarantine classification was later downgraded. “DOH worked on communicating and reinforcing minimum public health standards at the height of the emergence of variants, focusing on areas where increases in COVID-19 cases are observed. However, there were still instances where many had defied mass gathering restrictions and breached health protocols despite the strict warnings against the same,” she added.

On Feb. 28, the country’s first batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrived, which paved the way for the start of its vaccination program against the viral illness on March 1. The country’s very first vaccine was the one developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech—which was then donated by the Chinese government. “In relation to the National COVID-19 Vaccination Program, vaccine hesitancy of the public was once a dilemma of the government which affected the vaccination program. This issue is peddled with the rampant dissemination of misinformation on COVID-19 and vaccines,” she added.

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