IT may sound strange that confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) began rising again on the same week that the initial shipments of vaccines arrived in Manila and the government started rolling out its inoculation drive.

Last Saturday, the Department of Health (DoH) reported 3,439 new cases, the highest number in a single day since Oct. 12, 2020. When the first shipment of 600,000 doses of Sinovac Biotech’s CoronaVac vaccine from China arrived on February 28, the DoH database showed 2,113 new cases.

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