The Philippines began a three-day campaign on Monday to vaccinate nine million people against COVID-19, developing security officers and thousands of volunteers in a campaign made necessary by the Omicron variant’s threats.

Despite the fact that the original goal of 15 million doses scaled back, nine million would still be a large number in an island nation where logistics and vaccine hesitancy are issues.

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines says at an east vaccination center of the capital Manila, “This is our single biggest push to fast-track vaccination,”

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Police were assisting hundreds of people in queues at several of the 8,000 immunization stations, where 160,000 volunteers were working, while parents brought their children to be immunized.

After getting immunized, Sean Gerald Valdez, 12, said, “This is important to avoid COVID-19 and for us when we do face-to-face classes in the future”

In November, three million vaccines would be nearly quadruple the national average of 829,000.

According to Carlito Galvez, the country’s vaccination chief, the new Omicron variant had made the campaign even more important.

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