The Department of the Interior and Local Government is targeting the booster inoculation of all of its 6,140 employees against Covid-19 as part of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.'s directive to ramp up booster vaccination rate in the country.

In Saturday's Bakunahang Bayan: PinasLakas Special Vaccination Day in its central and regional offices, Interior Secretary Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr. said the simultaneous booster vaccination is a clear manifestation to end the pandemic by building a stronger wall of immunity to protect the public from the virus through booster vaccination.

"These booster vaccination drives we organized within the department is our small way of showing the DILG's full support to the government's Bakunahang Bayan: PinasLakas Special Vaccination Days campaign," said Abalos.

The Bakunahang Bayan: PinasLakas Special Vaccination Days is an initiative of the Department of Health which is aiming to augment the Covid-19 booster vaccination rate in the country.

Abalos also stressed that the DILG's vaccination program among its employees was conducted within the agency's central and regional offices ensuring the convenience and availability of Covid-19 vaccines and booster doses for its personnel.