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DOH cancels Monday PinasLakas activities in Karding-hit areas
By GISELLE OMBAY,GMA NewsAll Monday PinasLakas activities in areas affected by Super Typhoon Karding are canceled, Department of Health (DOH) officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire announced on Sunday.
The DOH was supposed to kick off its PinasLakas Special Vaccination Days on Monday, September 26, until September 30 to ramp up the booster uptake in the country.
Based on the DOH’s national COVID-19 vaccination dashboard, there are 19 million Filipinos who have received their booster shots. Meanwhile at least 72.9 million individuals are now fully vaccinated against the viral disease.
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The DOH launched PinasLakas in July with the hope of administering booster shots to 23.8 million Filipinos or 50% of the country's eligible population within the first 100 days of the Marcos administration.
Vergeire, however, earlier admitted that the DOH had to increase its target to more than 400,000 COVID-19 booster shots per day after the campaign failed to meet its daily goals since it started. — DVM, GMA News