Published March 9, 2021, 11:35 AM
Muntinlupa City has received 1,000 doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from the national government.
According to Dr. Edwin Dimatatac, medical director of the city-run Ospital ng Muntinlupa (OsMun) in Alabang, the 100 vials, equivalent to 1,000 doses, of the vaccine were delivered to the hospital Tuesday morning.
A hospital worker at Ospital ng Muntinlupa gets vaccinated with AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine (Russel dela Cruz / MANILA BULLETIN)
OsMun started vaccinating hospital workers with AstraZeneca vaccine today (March 9). The second dose will be administered on May 4.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends two doses of AstraZeneca with an interval of eight to 12 weeks.
Published February 3, 2021, 10:02 AM
The Muntinlupa City government has identified the high priority groups as it unveiled its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination plan for residents.
Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi leads the city’s Vaccination Simulation Exercise in anticipation of the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines in the country.
(Muntinlupa PIO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Earlier, the city government announced that it would allot P170 million for the vaccination rollout and has ordered 400,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca.
Under its vaccination plan, which was approved by the Muntinlupa City Council and will be submitted to the Department of Health and Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), the top priority for vaccination are medical frontliners.