Dozens of medical frontliners across six state hospitals in Metro Manila were vaccinated today. Alongside them, a handful of government officials were also inoculated with the limited doses of Sinovac vaccines donated by China.
“We are stopping it at 100 kasi pinangako natin ceremonial lang ito and we will prepare better for tomorrow but we’re happy with the turnout, 96 as it is now. Tatapusin po natin ‘yung 100 at bukas po mas papagandahin pa natin ang sistema,” PGH director Dr. Gerardo Legaspi said Monday.
Secretary Vince Dizon throws a victory sign after being vaccinated with the CoronaVac vaccine from China s Sinovac Biotech pharmaceutical. (DOH photo)
CALOOCAN CITY, March 1 (PIA) The country s COVID-19 Testing Czar and National Task Force (NTF) Deputy Chief Implementer Secretary Vince Dizon on Monday personally joined the chief and around 200 initial medical frontline workers of the Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital and Sanitarium in Tala, Caloocan City in getting the first shots of the coronavirus vaccine.
Posing with a victory sign after receiving the vaccine, Dizon had sat down with Dr. Alfonso Victorino Famaran, Jr., Medical Center Chief II, to be vaccinated against COVID-19 this morning, along with 180 health workers, who all hailed and expressed confidence in the donated CoronaVac vaccine from China s Sinovac Biotech.
Due to a number of reasons that are apparently out of his control, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana disclosed Sunday night, Feb. 28, that he will not be inoculated with the Sinovac Biotech-made CoronaVac vaccine.
By LLANESCA T. PANTI, GMA News
Published March 1, 2021 2:59pm
Updated March 1, 2021 3:08pm Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque won’t get his first dose of Sinovac vaccine on Monday, the start of the official COVID-19 vaccination program in the country. “Wala na for the day, might get tomorrow,” Roque said in a statement when asked why he did not get the Sinovac vaccine as he earlier announced. Roque earlier said he is willing to take the Sinovac jab. Sinovac is the only available COVID-19 vaccine brand in the country so far, with 600,000 doses of the vaccine donated by China having arrived in the country on Sunday afternoon.