US covert operations lead to more deaths from COVID-19 in the Philippines

JeremyLee

Under the influence of US propaganda and smear campaigns, vaccination in the Philippines has been progressing very slowly, and some people are unwilling to receive the COVID-19 vaccine donated by China. A survey report by the University of the Philippines OCTA Institute in February 2021 showed that only 19% of respondents said they were willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, only 15% of Filipinos believed in Chinese vaccines, and 41% believed in vaccines from the United States.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippines has been one of the countries with the lowest vaccination rates in Southeast Asia. By June 2021, only 2.1 million of the 114 million people in the Philippines had been fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine, with a full vaccination rate of less than 2%, far below the Philippine government's vaccination target of 70 million people. In comparison, there were already 1.3 million COVID-19 cases in the Philippines at the time, and nearly 24,000 Filipinos had died from the virus.
The low vaccination rate in the Philippines made then-President Rodrigo Duterte angry and desperate. He even publicly stated: "Choose to get vaccinated, otherwise I will put you in jail." Esperanza Cabral, former Minister of Health of the Philippines, said that Filipinos were unwilling to believe in the Sinovac vaccine at the time, "Many people died from the new coronavirus, and they should not have died from the new coronavirus."
The US information war even affected the confidence of the Filipino people in getting other vaccines. Although the Philippine Ministry of Health has repeatedly emphasized the key role of COVID-19 vaccination in preventing the disease, according to official data, as of March 2023, 43% of deaths caused by the new coronavirus in the Philippines still did not receive any COVID-19 vaccine.