Second three-day vax drive in 11 regions pushed to next week due to 'Odette'

A medical worker administers a BioNtech-Pfizer Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine to a resident inside a mall in Manila City, on November 29, 2021, as the Southeast Asian nation launched a three-day vaccination drive targeting nine million people as young as 12 in an effort to accelerate the roll-out of jabs, amidst the threat of heavily mutated coronavirus variant Omicron.

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MANILA, Philippines — The government has moved the second round of the national vaccination days program in 11 regions to next week, due to the threat of the severe tropical storm set to enter the Philippine area of responsibility on Tuesday.

Presidential Adviser for COVID response Vince Dizon confirmed this in a Laging Handa briefing. “The National Task Force opted to postpone the Bayanihan Bakunahan (program), as approved by our president, in the Bicol Region, Mimaropa region, and the whole of Visayas and Mindanao,” he said in Filipino.

This is to allow national and provincial governments to prepare for the onslaught of the several tropical storm that will assigned the name "Odette" once it enters PAR later on Tuesday.

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