Close to 60 million out of some 110 million Filipinos are already fully vaccinated. - Reuters
MANILA, Jan 25 (The Straits Times/ANN): The Philippines seems to have put the worst of a massive coronavirus outbreak behind it, with signs that the current surge fuelled by the extremely infectious Omicron variant has already crested.
"If we're talking about the numbers, I think we've reached the highest... (The numbers are) consistently going down and aligned with our projections," Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told reporters on Tuesday (Jan 25).
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