The number of health care workers infected with COVID-19 has gone down as most of them have already been vaccinated, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday“We’re getting this kind of report also from our other hospitals where there has been a decline in the number of health workers who get infected. This is because most health workers are fully vaccinated,” DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said at a briefing.

There is no letup in the delivery of vaccines and the inoculation of Filipinos be it day or night, in fair or inclement weather, National Task Force against COVID-19 chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. said yesterday.

To convince more residents to get vaccinated, the Navotas City government has launched a program wherein companions of senior citizens who want to receive COVID-19 vaccines will also be vaccinated.

The Makati City government will start inoculating bedridden residents against COVID-19, Mayor Abby Binay said yesterday.

As the more virulent Delta variant spread from India to other parts of the planet including neighboring Indonesia and Thailand, a Philippine health official said it was “inevitable” that the highly infectious mutation of the COVID virus would reach the country.