Thank you, Madam Chair.
The Philippines, after more than two years of economic lockdown—one of the most severe in the world—is doing very well. Approximately 70 million people have been vaccinated. There was a time last year when there was a shortage of vaccines, but this country has taken masking and physical distancing very seriously, and through the Holy Week here, which brought many people together in churches, through the major political rallies and election day when 70 million people voted, there has not been an uptick in the pandemic. The last time I looked there were 200 cases in a population of 110 million, so the country is bouncing out of the pandemic relatively well compared to how many other countries are doing.