The Philippines has kicked off an ambitious campaign to vaccinate nine million people in three days, as it temporarily suspended flights from countries with cases of the Omicron variant, a new variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. “This is our single biggest push to fast-track vaccination and reaches our target of 70 percent population protection nationwide,” President Rodrigo Duterte said at a vaccination site in the capital Manila on Nov. 29. Though an earlier target of 15 million shots was scaled back due to a shortage of supplies and logistical challenges, nine million would still be a significant number for the archipelago nation. The government has deployed over 100,000 volunteers and set up 8,000 vaccination centres across 16 of the 18 regions nationwide to help vaccinate eligible residents as young as 12. Duterte also declared the three-day period “special working days,” which will exempt people from work if they are …