The Department of Health assured the public yesterday that the country’s supply of COVID-19 test kits is enough even as the surge in cases raised the demand nationwide.

After drugstores, the National Vaccination Operations Center is exploring all other possible “avenues” to scale up the country’s inoculation activities against COVID-19.

The government may hold another round of mass vaccinations to achieve its goal of fully vaccinating 77 million people against COVID-19 within the first quarter of the year, Malacañang said yesterday.

Credit should go to French President Emanuel Macron for leading the way in the use of hardball tactics to get people to be vaccinated.

Government could be more aggressive and creative in convincing folks to get vaccinated instead of resorting to threats of arrest and punishment (that “no vax, no ride” policy is really problematic to enforce).