Bataan residents urged: Get booster shots
Filipinos 12 years old and above are eligible to receive a first booster shot; while senior citizens, health workers, and immunocompromised adults may get their second booster jab
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — The provincial government of Bataan is urging all Bataenos to get vaccinated with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) booster shots and is offering cash prizes to those who will avail the booster vaccine.
In line with this, Bataan Governor Joet Garcia has launched the program dubbed as “PinasLakas” which aims to inoculate about 50 percent or 23.8 million of the target population in the first 100 days of the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Department of Health (DoH) OIC-Undersecretary Charade Mercado-Grande said that under the PinasLakas vaccination drive, the national government is making the vaccines more accessible and available in community settings including markets, places of worship, malls, transport terminals, offices, factories, plazas and schools.
“For the past two and a half years of fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, we have seen that through unity among us, we can now see the easing of restrictions. Through our participation, let us together make the Philippines stronger,” she said.
Filipinos 12 years old and above are eligible to receive a first booster shot; while senior citizens, health workers, and immunocompromised adults may get their second booster jab.
The campaign is also geared to vaccinate 90 percent of the target Priority Group A2 or the senior citizens in the next three months.
The agency reported that only about 77.6 percent of the senior citizens were covered in the vaccination; while 19 percent of the total eligible population received their booster doses, as of 4 July.