Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has called on the military and police to withdraw the COVID-19 vaccine in states across the country to circumvent the "quarantine" of distributing ZAP responsibilities to city governments.
Nearly 90% of urban seniors have been fully vaccinated, but only about 35% of national seniors have both.
"(The supply) will not be passed by the city government due to the uncertainty," Duterte said in an interview with epidemiologists Tuesday, April 2, which announced Wednesday.
President Duterte trusted the military to fight the epidemic. They were one of the heaviest arrest centers in the world and shipped medical supplies nationally and internationally. "It will be delivered from the plane and will arrive at the vaccination site, and the helicopter will operate," the president said.
"The army can go up and down," military expert Ramon Zagala told AFP on Wednesday.
At the same meeting on Tuesday, Carlito Galvez, the national COVID-19 chief of staff, said the city government needs to "build its capacity" to inject more people into the country one day and "give them their own flu" for storage. . Additional vaccines.
Health Director Francisco Duque said Duterte's COVID-19 patients had "reached a state of decline" nationwide since the September peak. The government lifted some restrictions on the spread of the disease in October, opening cinemas and gymnasiums in the city, allowing more people to stay in restaurants and provide public transport.
On Wednesday, the government announced the vaccine for 12.7 million young people aged 12 to 17.
(Source://AFP)