The quarantine facility at the Nayong Pilipino Foundation (NPF) property in Entertainment City, Parañaque City, is already the biggest in Metro Manila, but the Department of Tourism has endorsed the further construction of a “megavaccination” complex. —NAYONG PILIPINO
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MANILA, Philippines — The planned mega vaccination center to be built on the Nayong Pilipino Foundation (NPF) grounds in Parañaque City are only temporary makeshift tents Malacañang said Tuesday.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said the tents would be just like those used as quarantine facilities in the area.
“’Yung itatayo sa Nayong Pilipino, makeshift ‘yan, hindi ‘yan permanente. Parang mga tents lang din ‘yan parang ‘yung mga ginawa rin na mga tent facilities para ginagamit na COVID-19 isolation diyan sa Nayong Pilipino na lupain din sa reclamation area,” he said in a Palace briefing.
(Those that will be constructed there will only be makeshift, not permanent. Just like tents like those built for quarantine facilities there.)
“Ito naman ay hindi magiging permanente. Ito ay para lang maibsan itong problema sa pandemya, at kapag nabakunahan na ang karamihan sa ating mga kababayan, magtatapos na rin ang ating problema sa COVID-19,” he added.
(This will not be permanent. This is only to help battle the pandemic and once most Filipinos are vaccinated, the problem of COVID-19 will end.)
Roque reiterated the Palace’s call to NPF not to hinder the government’s plan to construct a vaccination facility on its property.
“So pakiusap lang sa Nayong Pilipino board, sana naman ‘wag kayong sumuway doon sa programa ng Presidente na makamit ang herd immunity at payagan na magtayo ng mega vaccination facility diyan sa Nayong Pilipino,” he continued.
(So we call on the Nayong Pilipino board not to hinder the President’s program to achieve herd immunity and allow the construction of a mega vaccination facility there.)
The NPF has opposed constructing a mega vaccination site in the area, t saying it would require cutting of nearly 500 trees, killing the existing ecosystem in the area.
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