The two-week Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region Plus (NCR Plus) bubble has helped stabilize the number of COVID-19 cases in San Juan City, Mayor Francis Zamora said on Tuesday (April 13).
Published April 8, 2021, 12:48 PM
The San Juan City local government started on Thursday, April 8, the disbursement of the P98 million financial cash assistance the city received from the national government for its citizens to help them amid the ongoing Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila.
(Screenshot from Mayor Francis Zamora Facebook live)
The first payout was conducted in Barangay St. Joseph, and was witnessed by San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora, National Action Plan Against COVID-19 Deputy Chief Implementer Vince Dizon, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Undersecretary Feliciano Bodiongan, and San Juan City DILG Director Sylvestre Barrameda.
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(Screenshot from Mayor Francis Zamora Facebook Live/ MANILA BULLETIN)
Dr. Edgar Michael Eufemio, Ms. Maria Louzel Diaz-Tiozon, and Dr. Sergie Paul Hernandez were vaccinated at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center (CSMC) after 300 jabs of the vaccine were delivered to the hospital, signalling the start of San Juan City’s vaccination drive.
San Juan City Mayor Francisco Zamora said another 300 doses of the vaccine will be delivered to the San Juan Medical Center for the medical frontliners.
“The vaccine rollout comes at a very significant time as almost 1 year ago, March 6, 2020, the DOH confirmed to me the first local transmission in the Philippines was a patient from Cardinal Santos Medical Center.” Zamora said in his statement posted on Facebook.