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Published March 7, 2021, 12:03 PM
Rep. Alfred Vargas
Rep. Alfred Vargas of the 5th District of Quezon City has lauded Mayor Joy Belmonte for including 300,000 senior citizens, 20,000 persons with disabilities (PWDs) and 703,000 indigents under the QC ProtekTodo plan.
“Being one of the biggest cities in Metro Manila, we must all work together and make sure that our residents are protected from the pandemic. Our Mayor has a good plan and the sooner we are able to implement vaccination of a majority of our residents, a certain level of normalcy will be reached which will allow fully opening up business in line with President Duterte’s vision,” said Vargas, chair, social services committee in Congress.
Mayor Isko Moreno
First, the good news. Manila led the way in the formal vaccination roll out of the first batch of the anti-COVID-19 vaccines that arrived in the country. It was held at the Philippine General Hospital, where PGH Director Gap Legaspi himself became the first recipient of the Coronavac made and donated by China’s Sinovac
Biotech.
Later during the day, Manila was fortunate enough to receive 3,000 Coronavac vaccines from the national government and for this, we profusely thank President Rodrigo Duterte, National Task Force (NTF) Deputy Chief Implementer and Testing Czar Vince Dizon, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez, Jr., Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III and the DOH family for being highly instrumental in the donation of vaccines given to the city.
DAVAO CITY – One-hundred fifty healthcare workers from the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) here have been vaccinated with the first dose of the CoronaVac vaccine developed by Sinovac of China.