
Covid made the Philippines' hunger crisis worse. So why does hardly anyone want a vaccine?
CNN
With nine children and one grandchild, life was hard for Mona Liza Vito and her family even before the pandemic. Then, coronavirus lockdowns led to job losses and a hunger crisis across the country. Covid vaccines are being offered, but take-up is dangerously low.
Vito used to work long hours peeling sacks of garlic, making about $2 a day, while her husband worked as a day laborer in construction. But now their work has dried up, a casualty of an economic downturn in the Philippines after multiple coronavirus lockdowns. And trying to feed so many mouths has become a daily struggle for survival. "We don't have anything for my children's food, for our daily expenses," Vito said. "Sometimes, at night, we don't have anything to eat, we can only wait for the next day."
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