Description : Healthcare workers call for a free, safer and effective COVID-19 vaccine during a protest outside the Philippine General Hospital in Manila. Activists along with medical workers and students demanded for a free and safer COVID-19 vaccine for health care workers, who continue to be at risk amid the surge of coronavirus cases in the country. The government, meanwhile, faced criticism for failing to immediately launch a vaccination program, leaving the Philippines the only ASEAN member with no COVID-19 vaccines that is expected to arrive in late February. Philippines.