(FILE) San Juan City residents get inoculated with a single dose of Johnson & Johnson’s at the FilOil Flying V Center on Wednesday, July 21, where around 600 individuals from A2-A3 priority categories recieved the one-shot vaccine. Niño Jesus Orbeta/Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines — San Juan City will start home vaccination of seniors and bedridden residents against COVID-19 starting on Wednesday.
According to the city government, the home vaccination program will start in Barangay Batis at 10 a.m. and will be led by San Juan Mayor Francis Zamora.
“We have to come up with this mechanism to make sure that the bedridden patients and senior citizens, who are not capable to physically go to our vaccination sites because of their medical conditions, will be inoculated at the safety of their homes,” Zamora said.
“These San Juaneños, despite their being confined in their respective homes all this time, might still get the virus from the other members of their household and we do not want that to happen as all of them who are either senior citizens or persons with severe medical conditions have compromised immune systems,” he added.
Zamora also assured that the city’s medical workers will make sure that bedridden patients are physically and medically qualified to receive the vaccines.
The city will also begin distributing quarantine passes to residents as Metro Manila, Bulacan, Laguna, Cavite, and Rizal will be placed under enhanced community quarantine starting on Friday, August 6.
As of August 2, a total of 132,362 vaccine first doses, or 107.58 percent of the total population has been administered by San Juan based on the Philippine Statistics Authority population projection for 2021 (while 99.89 percent of the population projection for 2021 of the Asian Development Bank.)
The city also administered 82,307 second doses or 66.90 percent of the total population based on the PSA population projection.
Meanwhile, as of July 31, San Juan has recorded a total number of 9,657 COVID-19 cases. This includes 9,247 recoveries, 181 active cases, and 229 deaths.
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