THE Duterte Covid-19 Busters, officially known as the Inter-agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), intends to vaccinate 70 million Filipinos within the current year 2021. The task force expects that by the second quarter of this year, 148 million doses will arrive in the country.

According to the experts, to attain herd immunity from Covid, 70 percent of the country’s population of almost 130 million should be fully vaccinated. The time frame for vaccination to start should be June of this year to attain full vaccination of the required population percentage by February 2022.