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(PNA photo by Joey Razon) MANILA - Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. said the country's vaccination program had been "sterling" but more supply of the life-saving shots is needed to augment the rollout. "I assure everyone here that the critics are liars; our rollout has been sterling cleaner, more efficient, well tracked; we just need more vaccines," he said over Twitter on Wednesday night. The statement comes after Nikkei Asia ranked the Philippines last in its latest Covid-19 Recovery Index, which assesses 121 countries and regions on infection management, vaccine rollouts and social mobility. The report said while the Philippines' daily cases have started to decline, "less than 30 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, low even among ASEAN countries." But for National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 medical adviser Dr. Teodoro Herbosa, there is "some erroneous thing" in Nikkei's comparisons, saying that the n ....

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