Published February 10, 2021 2:37pm San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora on Wednesday asked Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to allow him to be the first person to be inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine in the city. In a letter he read during the visit of National Task Force against COVID-19 in the city, Zamora said he is aware that the priority in the vaccination program are healthcare workers and medical frontliners but he believed that being the first to be inoculated will boost his constituents trust and confidence. “(I) seek your approval.to be the first person to be vaccinated in the City of San Juan. The undersigned is volunteering in order to increase the trust and confidence of our citizens in the vaccination process and to encourage them to have themselves inoculated as well,” he said.
Some top government officials and healthcare workers from the PNP and AFP could be part of the first group to receive the country s limited batch of coronavirus vaccines, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III says.
Published February 5, 2021, 5:43 PM
For Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos, submitting oneself to anti-COVID vaccination is a question of patriotism.
(From left to right) DoH Secretary Francisco Duque III, Mandaluyong Mayor Menchie Abalos, and MMDA Chairman Benhur Abalos during Friday’s inspection. (MMDA/ MANILA BULLETIN)
“It is a patriotic duty to get inoculated as it protects us from COVID-19. We should do this not only for ourselves but for our family as well,” Abalos said Friday.
The MMDA chief made the remark even as a lot of Filipinos are still unwilling to receive the vaccine for fear of possible side effects.
PARAÑAQUE CITY, Feb. 6 The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) and the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 officials inspected the cold storage facilities of Royal Cargo, Inc on Friday as part of the government’s ongoing preparations for the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines.
According to Royal Cargo Inc. Chairman and group CEO Michael Kurt Raeuber, the company’s cold chain facilities can store up 2 million vaccine doses by February, and another 8 million doses from March to April of this year.
“Right now, we have enough for operations in March and April, and from then on we have enough for the entire Philippines in reality. We have far too many great facilities to handle the vaccines,” Raeuber told the COVID-19 Task Force officials.
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File February 05, 2021 AT LEAST 116,000 healthcare workers in the National Capital Region (NCR) are now entered in the master list for the anti-coronavirus vaccination program, according to the Department of Health (DOH).
In a virtual press briefing, DOH - Covid-19 Surveillance and Quick Action Unit deputy chief Razel Nikka Hao said the list still has to be finalized as the hospitals are not done profiling their personnel. The hospitals are still going through the process of going through each of their staff, who have comorbidities or who have exclusions, said Hao.
DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said it is necessary to complete the master list in Metro Manila because the healthcare workers there are first in the prioritization list of vaccine recipients.