San Jose Del Monte commits P100M to buy vaccines for herd immunity
MANILA, Philippines —The local government of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan has allocated P100 million to buy enough COVID-19 vaccines to immunize all its residents.
“The city government of SJDM has allotted an initial amount of P100 million for the purchase of vaccines and additional funding will be allotted depending on the final cost of the vaccines and the actual number of those who will get the vaccines,” San Jose Del Monte City Rep. Florida Robes said in a statement.
Robles said that the city’s goal is to vaccinate 75 percent of eligible residents by the end of 2021 to achieve herd immunity.
Vaccination will be given to the remaining 25 percent in the first quarter of 2022, depending on the national government’s ability to procure vaccines.
“We are aiming for 75 percent coverage by the end of 2021, but this will depend on the vaccine procurement of the national government,” Robes said.
“But we were assured by Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases Chairperson, Secretary Carlito Galvez, that sufficient vaccines will arrive in the country by the middle of this year until the end of the third quarter of this year,” she added.
Article continues after this advertisementOn Sunday, the San Jose Del Monte City government announced that it has already inoculated 88 percent of its health workers.
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The city has likewise already vaccinated 100 percent of the 220 targeted people with comorbidities who have registered to get the vaccine
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