THE merchandise exports of the Philippines to the United States have been chugging along on well-oiled gears in recent years. That is, until a virus from Wuhan, China, formed like a monkey wrench and dented the momentum between the countries. Last year, Manila shipped $10.02 billion worth of exports to…
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The launch happened at the FilOil Flying V Centre, San Juan’s primary vaccination hub, and was led by Mayor Francis Zamora and other city government officials and employees.
“With the arrival of these single-shot vaccines, we are getting closer to reaching our target of inoculating 70 percent of our population with two doses by end of August. We have also opened our third vaccination site at VMall Greenhills Shopping Center so I am confident that we will hit our goal,” Zamora said.
The city previously opened its third vaccination hub last July 19 located at the third floor Events Place of VMall which can accommodate 1,000 vaccinees a day and will increase the city’s daily vaccination rate to 5,000 jabs, including jabs done at the city’s primary vaccination sites FilOil Flying V Centre and Theater Mall Cinemas 1 and 2.
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San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora, together with the San Juan local government and national government officials, were at the Greenhills Shopping Center to mark the milestone. Among them were Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, COVID-19 testing czar Vince Dizon, and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez.
Zamora said that as of July 11, the city has already administered 96,610 first doses to its residents, which is equivalent to 112.18 percent of its target population to achieve herd immunity, while 29,313 residents received their second dose.
Secretary Dizon and Secretary Duque lauded the LGU for its fast and efficient vaccination program.
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“As of yesterday, we have vaccinated 73,987 people out of 85,400 and that represents 86.6 percent already of our target population to be vaccinated,” Zamora said in an interview with CNN Philippines.
He added that the city now only needs to vaccinate 11,413 more individuals or around 13 percent of the target population.
The city government intends to give the eligible population their first dose in the middle of July and have everyone fully vaccinated by August.
“At the rate we’re going, I believe these targets are achievable as long as constant supply would be on hand, I don’t think there will be any problem,” Zamora said.
3 in 4 of San Juan’s target population already get COVID-19 jab
Jun 29, 2021 7:55 AM PHT
Dwight de Leon
The city government of San Juan expressed optimism on Monday, June 28, that it would be able to administer at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose to 100% of its target population by mid-July.
In a statement, Mayor Francis Zamora said that, as of June 25, 63,950 individuals out of its 85,400 target population already received their first COVID-19 vaccine dose.
Of this number, over 18,000 individuals or 21% of the city s target population already got their second and were therefore fully vaccinated against COVID-19. We are targeting to reach 100% by middle of July. We are targeting to vaccinate 100% of the target population with two doses by end of August, Zamora said.