The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday disputed a Cebu City health official’s recent pronouncement that the city population had shown signs of herd immunity against COVID-19. The DOH stressed that herd immunity is achieved by communities through vaccination. Herd or population immunity is a concept in vaccination wherein enough people in a specific area are protected against an infectious disease. Earlier, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a strategy of achieving herd immunity without a safe and effective vaccine was “morally unconscionable and unfeasible.”ADVERTISEMENT“Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone a pandemic. Quezon City reported the most number of new infections, 115, followed by Davao City (107), Rizal (105), Bulacan (102) and Cavite (82).

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 07, 2020 21:11 UTC