The government is fully committed to vaccinate all qualified Filipinos against Covid-19 despite the challenges it has to face, National Task Force Against Covid-19 chief implementer and vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said.

He issued the statement following the report of the World Bank that the country's mass inoculation program "continued to lag."

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