Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon (MANILA BULLETIN File photo/Facebook)
The 75-year-old senator said in an interview over radio DWIZ that he registered and lined up for inoculation in San Juan City. He was administered a dose of the vaccine from British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca last April 10.
He praised San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora for the “orderly” process of vaccinations in the city.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak last year, Drilon has been attending Senate hearings and sessions via teleconference due to his age. He was also implanted with a pacemaker to help regulate his heartbeat.
Senior citizens and persons with comorbities are among the priority sectors in the government’s nationwide vaccination program, coming next to health frontliners.
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Mayor Francisco Zamora
(Photo from Mayor Francisco Zamora Facebook page / FILE PHOTO)
He will get his first Sinovac jab after he was given the go signal by his infectious disease doctor Paul Salandanan, Secretary Vince Dizon, deputy chief implementer of the National Action Plan Against COVID-19; and Gloria Balboa, Department of Health (DOH) National Capital Region director.
This came after the DOH announced that recovered COVID-19 patients are no longer required to wait for 90 days before getting the vaccine.
The Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) also allowed mayors in high-risk areas to get vaccinated.
The local government of San Juan expects a drop in daily COVID-19 cases after the city s shift to a looser quarantine status until the end of the month.
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.