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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.
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora (Photo by Patrick Garcia)
The launch was held at the FilOil Flying V Centre, San Juan’s main vaccination site, and was attended by San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora.
Zamora said around 1,800 vaccines were delivered Tuesday night at the arena and were stored in ultra low freezers due to the vaccine’s required storing temperature of -25°C to -15°C.
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He added that the freezers were rented by the local government unit (LGU) in preparation for the inoculation of its residents under the A1 (healthcare workers), A2 (senior citizens), A3 (person with commorbidities), A4 (economic frontliners), and A5 (indigent population) categories on Wednesday.
OCTA, mayor recommend extended GCQ for July
Updated Jun 28, 2021 11:19:00 AM
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 28) The OCTA Research group wants to extend the general community quarantine status of Metro Manila in July amid the threat of the highly transmissible Delta and Delta Plus COVID-19 variants across the world.
Speaking to CNN Philippines
New Day on Monday, OCTA Research fellow Guido David said he prefers extending GCQ in the capital region while increasing the capacity of businesses for economic recovery. For the NCR, we could add capacity to businesses. We could open some other businesses, but I agree with the position of the DOH (Department of Health) that we should maintain GCQ in the NCR because although the trend is decreasing, the virus is still present, David said.
Pass the word. San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora believes that aside from the local government's campaign to urge its citizens to be vaccinated, "word of mouth" or the passing on of the vaccinee's good experience about the vaccine is also an excellent way to boost the people's confidence to get th