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DOH: Over 1.5 million Filipinos get 2nd booster dose

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MANILA – According to the Department of Health (DOH), over 1.5 million health care workers, senior citizens, and immunocompromised individuals or those with comorbidities have received their second booster dose of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine.

DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire on Tuesday reported that around 71.9 million Filipinos are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as of August 8. 

More than 9.7 million of the tally are adolescents and 4.2 million are children.

About 16.6 million have received their first booster shot.

“Dalawang linggo na lang din po bago ang pasukan kaya hinihikayat po naming ang mga magulang at legal guardians na pataasin pa po natin ang bilang ng mga kabataang bakunado (It’s just two weeks till the opening of classes so we encourage parents and legal guardians to help increase the number of vaccinated children),” Vergeire said in an online media briefing.

All areas in the country, she said, are showing a continuous uptrend in cases, except the Visayas, which has shown signs of plateauing.

About 27,982 new cases have been logged across the country from August 2 to 8, Vergeire said.

In the recent week, the daily average number of cases in the country is 3,997.

Vergeire also stated that the national weekly optimism rating has risen to 18.6 percent from 16.7 percent of the previous week.

She said hospital admissions of severe and critical cases in the intensive care units have shown an uptrend since July 2022.

“The current number of severe and critical cases is at 772 or 9.3 percent of the total admissions,” she added.

The health care utilization rate of the country, however, remains under the low-risk classification.

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