The government will open up its vaccine booster program to the country's health workers by November or December to give them additional protection against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said on Friday.

Galvez, the chief implementer of the National Task Force Against Covid-19, also said the administration of booster shots will begin once 50 percent of the country's population are already inoculated.

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