More than 132,000 Filipinos received their first booster shot against Covid-19 during the “Bakunahang Bayan” special vaccination activity held last Dec. 5 to 7, the Department of Health (DOH) reported.
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021.
“We were able to vaccinate first booster doses to 132,770 individuals nationwide,” DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a press briefing on Friday, Dec. 9. Vergeire cited that at first, only two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine was necessary. However, the immunity it provides is waning over time, this is why booster doses were introduced.
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