Published May 20, 2021, 3:19 PM
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora and Mandaluyong City Mayor Menchie Abalos both said on Thursday that they will follow the Department of Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) and Department of Health’s (DOH) new directive to not announce what brands of vaccines will be used in a vaccination site. This came after huge crowds turned up for limited doses of Pfizer vaccines in Metro Manila early this week, a scenario feared to be a possible superspreader event driven by preference for a particular brand. “San Juan always follows the vaccination guidelines of the DOH and the IATF. We never announce what brands of vaccines will be used on a particular day,” Zamora said in a statement.
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora (Photo from Mayor Francis Zamora Facebook)
“We attribute this enormous decrease to the strict implementation of ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine), MECQ (Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine), and now GCQ (General Community Quarantine) alongside our local government’s relentless efforts to do continuous contact tracing, RT-PCR swab testing, isolation, and treatment,” Zamora said.
Metro Manila and the nearby provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, and Bulacan were placed under a bubble called the NCR Plus to mitigate the surge of COVID-19 cases.
Zamora said the city now has 19,004 of its residents already vaccinated against COVID-19.
“Our ongoing vaccination drive is a prime mover in our fight against COVID-19 and in protecting our people,” Zamora said.
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora (Mayor Francis Zamora Facebook)
“Here in San Juan, from 1,296 on April 12, it’s now down to 280 and this is really the effect of the ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine) and MECQ (Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine).” Zamora said in an interview with CNN Philippines.
The mayor said the Metro Manila Council (MMC) held a meeting yesterday to come up with a recommendation for the National Captial Region’s (NCR) next quarantine classification starting May 15. He personally voted to ease the quarantine classification to General Community Quarantine (GCQ) but stressed that it should be a stricter kind of GCQ to prevent the surge in COVID-19 cases.
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora (Photo from Mayor Francis Zamora Facebook)
Zamora said that his decision was made after the Metro Manila Council (MMC) had a meeting yesterday to discuss the Metro Manila mayors’ recommendation for the next quarantine classification of the National Capital Region (NCR).
“I personally voted for a GCQ because the discussions last night were really to have a GCQ that is strict in nature because there were GCQs before that had additional allowances, meaning in terms of allowable businesses and industries which made it a not so strict GCQ.” Zamora said during an interview with CNN Philippines.
Published May 4, 2021, 11:13 AM
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said the city has already distributed nearly P92 million of the P98 million fund allocated for those who were adversely affected by the imposition of the recent lockdowns in Metro Manila to curb the surge of COVID-19 cases.
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora (San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora’s Facebook / MANILA BULLETIN)
“’Yung cash ayuda natin, the one that they called the ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine) financial assistance, P98 million was allocated to San Juan and we have disbursed close to P92 million,” Zamora said in an interview with ANC’s Headstart.