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Taguig A1 vaccination almost done; A2 starts

By Lade Jean Kabagani

April 1, 2021, 5:09 pm

<p><strong>INOCULATED.</strong> Dr. Pascual Pattaui gets a fist bump from Taguig City Mayor Lino Cayetano (right) after getting his first shot of CoronaVac at the Lakeshore vaccination hub on March 2, 2021. Cayetano said the city is about 90 percent done inoculating healthcare workers. <em>(PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)</em></p>

INOCULATED. Dr. Pascual Pattaui gets a fist bump from Taguig City Mayor Lino Cayetano (right) after getting his first shot of CoronaVac at the Lakeshore vaccination hub on March 2, 2021. Cayetano said the city is about 90 percent done inoculating healthcare workers. (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)

MANILA – Taguig is almost done vaccinating its healthcare workers (A1) and has started the inoculation of the next priority group, the elderly under the A2 category.

Mayor Lino Cayetano also assured on Thursday that the national government's approved priority list for the Covid-19 vaccination program will be followed.

Taguig committed to secure vaccines for its 1 million residents and is expecting jabs from Novavax, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Moderna.

Second doses for the A1 group were administered Tuesday while the A2 inoculation started Wednesday.

"While we continue to build our portfolio of vaccines and wait for the supplies to arrive, we believe that the best vaccine to administer to our citizens is the vaccine that is available now," Cayetano said in a statement.

The city's case fatality rate is at 1.30 percent, while the recovery rate is 98.05 percent.

As of April 1, Taguig has 156 new active cases out of 14,619 confirmed cases, with 14,334 recoveries and 185 deaths.

Moreover, the city government's house-to-house distribution of stay-at-home family food packs to its residents is ongoing.

Each pack is good for at least three days per household of five members.

The initiative is part of the city's efforts to urge residents to stay at home while the enhanced community quarantine is in effect until April 4. (With reports from Lloyd Caliwan/PNA)



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