Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte is pushing for the passage of an ordinance that would come up with a contingency plan during unusual emergencies following the "misencounter" between the police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the city on Wednesday, Feb. 24, which led not only to d
Local chief executives must also be informed ahead of time regarding the activities of law enforcers in their respective cities so they will know what to do once the latter's operations get botched.
Metro Manila LGUs release down payments for AstraZeneca vaccine doses
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 24) Some local governments in Metro Manila have started releasing the required advance payments to AstraZeneca so as not to forfeit the COVID-19 vaccine doses they pre-ordered from the British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm.
The release of funds came after President Rodrigo Duterte permitted local governments to make down payments beyond 15% of the contract amount last week.
Parañaque Mayor Edwin Olivarez on Wednesday disclosed they paid an initial P9,606,000 for 200,000 vaccine doses that cost around P50 million in total.
“Nag-down payment na po kami nung 20% (We already gave the required 20% down payment),” Olivarez said at the Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum.
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte will not hesitate in placing the entire city under lockdown once the quarantine status in Metro Manila shifts to the least stringent Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ).
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has expressed frustration about the delay in the arrival of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in the country as it affected the city’s own vaccination program rollout and the reopening of its economy.