President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. joined the launch in the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) in Quezon City, where 2,900 PHC workers were expected to be vaccinated. Health Secretary Ted Herbosa was also vaccinated on Wednesday.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. joined the launch in the Philippine Heart Center in Quezon City, where 2,900 PHC workers were expected to be vaccinated. Health Secretary Ted Herbosa was also vaccinated on Wednesday.
The bivalent vaccines were first released in the United States around end-2022. These boosters were reformulated to target both the original strain of the coronavirus, and the more contagious Omicron variant, which emerged in November 2021. This Omicron variant drove the record-high infections that plagued the Philippines in January 2022. Its subvariants have driven“The Department of Health urges everyone, starting with our healthcare workers and senior citizens, to strengthen [their] immunity against COVID-19 by getting these bivalent boosters,” said Herbosa.
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