GET BOOSTED | President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., seen here with Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte, calls on Filipinos to get vaccinated during Wednesday鈥檚 launch of bivalent vaccines at the Philippine Heart Center in Quezon City. A bivalent vaccine protects against COVID鈥檚 original strain and newer variants. (Phot by NI脩O JESUS ORBETA / Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines 鈥� President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday called on Filipinos to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as their way of protecting the vulnerable sector and their way of honoring individuals who have worked hard so that the world could return to a state of normalcy.
Speaking at the 鈥檚 program for the rollout of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccination at the Philippine Heart Center in Quezon City, the president thanked the government of Lithuania and the World Health Organization for the 391,860 doses of the Comirnaty Pfizer-BioNtech-adapted bivalent vaccines received on June 3.
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A bivalent vaccine (Photo by NI脩O JESUS ORBETA / Philippine Daily Inquirer)