MAYOR BENG Climaco, head of the local Covid-19 task force, praised the Ateneo de Zamboanga University and two of Zamboanga City’s largest shopping malls - the KCC Mall de Zamboanga and SM City Mindpro - for offering their facilities as vaccination sites and further boosting the local government’s mass inoculation program.
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Climaco, head of the local task force on Covid-19, said thousands of medical frontliners and senior citizens, including people with comorbidity, had been vaccinated here. She also appealed to residents to register online through - zambocovax.com – so they can be included in the vaccination list.
“Residents should avail of the Covid-19 vaccination program because this is very vital in our fight against the deadly (respiratory) disease. We are appealing to all to register online and get vaccinated to help prevent the spread of the virus,” she said.
The national government’s Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) said it would send more vaccines to Zamboanga City following the spike in fresh Covid-19 cases due to the complacency of residents.
Secretary Vince Dizon, the IATF-MEID’s Deputy Chief Implementer of Covid-19 policies, and his team was in Zamboanga recently and met with Climaco and members of the local Covid-19 task force and the Regional IATF-MEID and discussed added measures to control the spread of the disease.
“We will be coordinating with Mayor Beng and her team to ensure a steady flow of vaccines,” Dizon said.
He also commended Climaco’s leadership and how the local government handled the health crisis. “(Mayor Beng) has demonstrated very efficient roll out of vaccines in the past couple of weeks despite the low supply that has been allocated.”
Dizon told Climaco that President Rodrigo Duterte instructed him (and the IATF-MEID) to provide all the necessary support and assistance to Zamboanga City which has over 2,500 active Covid-19 cases now from only three dozen earlier in March.
The spike in Covid-19 cases is believed to have been aggravated by the presence of U.K. variant or other new strains in Zamboanga City. In February, two overseas Filipino workers who returned home in Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga del Norte were tested positive for the U.K. variant.
“We will always be here for Zamboanga,
(us in the IATF-MEID) Secretary (Carlito) Galvez, (in-charge of the
government’s procurement of vaccines); (Baguio City and Covid-19 Contact Czar) Mayor
Benjie (Magalong); (Health) Secretary (Francisco) Duque, (DPWH) Secretary
(Mark) Villar. All of us in the IATF-MEID, will always prioritize Zamboanga
City, not only because of the rising cases but because of the importance of Zamboanga
City in the overall economy of Mindanao,” Dizon said.
“We commit that vaccines will come to Zamboanga City and Region 9…to roll out fast, and roll out to as many countrymen and women as possible. Thank you again for your leadership Mayor Beng,” he added.
Also in Dizon’s team were Health Assistant Secretary Romeo Ong and IATF-MEID Special Adviser Dr. Teodoro Herbosa. The group also brought along medicines, personal protective equipment for hospitals, ventilators and other equipment, including 10,000 antigen kits.
Climaco thanked Duterte and Dizon and
all other members of the IATF-MEID and the Department of Health for
continuously supporting the local government’s Covid-19 response. “Muchas
gracias Presidente Duterte and all the members of the IATF-MEID and DOH for
supporting our Covid response and other concerns,” she said. (Zamboanga Post)
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