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Solid health and economic indicators have recently emerged to show that our country is bouncing back after a long battle with the pandemic.

I express my condolences to the Aquino family and the entire Filipino nation on the demise of former President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino, III who died and was buried last week. As I said in the statement I issued to the press, I admired the former President who was a political opponent in 2010 and a coalition partner in 2013. Many people couldn’t grasp this at that time. How could bitter rivals become allies? I guess some cannot understand that differences can be set aside for the greater good.

It is nice to see local government units competing against each other in the vaccination drive with positive results. Close to 9 million Filipinos so far have received at least one vaccine dose as of last week. But LGUs can do more and should sustain their aggressiveness to bring the Philippines nearer to its herd immunity objective.