Some 8.27 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines funded by loans from the World Bank are expected to arrive in the country by December.

At a recent Task Force T3 meeting, recommendations were shared to accelerate vaccination rollout.

Since the multibillion-peso financial assistance or ayuda for the COVID pandemic was launched last year, anomalies have hounded the aid distribution.

It must be vaccine overconfidence. Or the relaxation of health protocol enforcement. Or simply quarantine fatigue. Or all of the above.

In a bid to stop the spread here of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, we have seen how hard lockdown and quarantine measures churned out both desirable and undesirable results more than a year and a half since then.