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Winning the war against Covid-19 in the Philippines will now hinge on the effective and timely distribution of vaccines across the nation. The government has already started detailing its distribution plan and priorities in the vaccination program, but it will need the help of the private sector as a trusted partner in eliminating the virus.

It’s going to be a different holiday season this year.

Countries around the world are grappling with a dilemma of whether to relax pandemic restrictions to allow people to celebrate the holidays. On one hand, there is fear that relaxing restrictions would cause a spike in coronavirus cases. In the US for instance, the coronavirus cases is already raging with daily cases topping 168,000.

The announcement last week by two US pharmaceutical companies that their vaccine candidates are more than 90-percent effective against Covid-19 has given us hope the pandemic will be contained in the coming months. The positive report bolsters the nation’s confidence to fully recharge the economy soon.