Philippines Races to Vaccinate 9 Million People Amid Omicron Concerns, Shuts Borders

Philippines Races to Vaccinate 9 Million People Amid Omicron Concerns, Shuts Borders
Medical workers prepare COVID-19 coronavirus vaccines at a colisium in Makati City, suburban Manila, Philippines, on Nov. 29, 2021. TED ALJIBE/AFP via Getty Images
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The Philippines has kicked off an ambitious campaign to vaccinate nine million people in three days, as it temporarily suspended flights from countries with cases of the Omicron variant, a new variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

“This is our single biggest push to fast-track vaccination and reaches our target of 70 percent population protection nationwide,” President Rodrigo Duterte said at a vaccination site in the capital Manila on Nov. 29.

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