Taguig is 4th city to administer more than a million doses of COVID-19 vaccines

The Taguig City Hall (From the official Taguig blog at WordPress)

MANILA, Philippines — Taguig has administered 1,015,029 doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Tuesday, Sept. 7, the city announced in a Facebook post.

It has thus become the fourth city — after Quezon City, Manila, and Caloocan — to breach the one-million-mark in the number of COVID-19 doses administered to its citizens.

“Taguig City attributes this milestone to the hard work of every healthcare and essential worker in the City who has largely contributed to contact tracing, vaccination efforts, and Taguig’s continuous implementation of the Prevent-Detect-Isolate-Treat-Reintegrate (PDITR) strategy versus COVID-19,” the Facebook statement reads.

The statement added that the city would continue to focus on community-based vaccination through the Taguig Mobile Vaccination Bus, Mobile Vaccination Team, and Home Service Vaccination for bedridden citizens.

Meanwhile, as of Sept. 7, Taguig has recorded a total of 38,087 COVID-19 cases, with 204 active infections, 35,765 recoveries, and 305 deaths.

The whole country is currently having a surge of COVID-19 infections due to the more transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant.

The Department of Health earlier logged 18,012 new COVID-19 cases, which brought the total confirmed cases nationwide to 2,121,308. The active cases are 158,637, with recoveries at 1,928,173 and deaths at 34,498.

Taguig, along with the other local government units in Metro Manila, will be under modified enhanced community quarantine until Sept. 15.

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