More than 600 health workers and uniformed personnel, who are on the frontlines in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Cainta, Rizal, have been inoculated with AstraZeneca vaccine.
Last Saturday, members of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) received the AztraZeneca vaccine shots at One Arena, the municipality’s gymnasium.
The whole process -- from registration, counseling, to post vaccination monitoring -- went on without a glitch, according to a staff of the Municipal Health Office.
Mayor Keithnielle Nieto told Manila Bulletin that the municipal government has an allocation of 2,300 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from the Department of Health.
Nieto said the vaccination rollout is intended to benefit the town’s 5,000 frontliners in public hospitals and barangay health centers.
The municipality’s vaccination program against COVID-19 kicked off on March 17.
As of March 20, Cainta recorded 17 new COVID-19 cases, bringing to 61 the total number of active cases in the municipality. It also listed 2,614 recoveries and 86 deaths out of the 2,761 confirmed cases.