WHO: Local governments must step up efforts to reach unvaccinated

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A medical worker prepares the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11 at a gym in San Juan City, suburban Manila on February 7, 2022.

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MANILA, Philippines — With doses of the COVID-19 vaccine more readily available, the World Health Organization said local government units should to scale up efforts to bring vaccination services to communities and to exceed immunization targets.

 

In an interview Monday, acting WHO representative to the Philippines Rajendra Yadav stressed the country’s resources should go to measures that will get more Filipinos vaccinated.

 

"The good news is we don’t have vaccine shortage anywhere in the world. The bad news is we’re not reaching the unreached enough. That will cause intense transmission as what’s happening in other countries and create more mutations," Yadav told state broadcaster People’s Television.

 

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