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Año orders LGUs to formulate master plan to raise COVID vax trust rate

Published Oct 18, 2021 09:40 am

Local government units (LGUs) must employ plans of action to address the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy as the government has stepped up its goal of attaining herd immunity in the country.

“I have directed all the LGUs already to craft the Risk Communication Strategy to include addressing the vaccine hesitancy," said Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año.

However, Año remained mum when asked if he agrees with the proposal to have people forcibly vaccinated especially with the relaxed quarantine protocols imposed in the National Capital Region (NCR) from Oct. 16 to 31.

The DILG chief explained earlier Metro Manila’s health protocols were relaxed from alert level 4 to alert level 3 or two weeks with records showing that NCR has “already attained the vaccination rate of 80 percent of eligible population.’’

“No problem here in NCR dahil (because) 80 percent na ang vaccinated as eligible population,’’ he added.

Despite the millions of deaths worldwide, some individuals still refused COVID-19 vaccine injection due to their belief that the virus was just made up and does not exist while others fear their side effects.

Others have outrageous and bizarre explanations that getting COVID-19 jabs might turn them into ‘zombies.’

On Oct. 16, Año acknowledged that the resurgence of COVID-19 in Metro Manila 3 remains a distinct possibility after health expert Dr. Tony Leachon expressed deep concern over the lowering of the NCR alert level stressing that a rebound of COVID-19 cases may occur.

Even with the likelihood of a COVID-19 surge in Metro Manila, Año’s said “we have to manage the risk’’ assuring that the PNP (Philippine National Police) together with the LGUs (local government units) will strictly enforce the minimum public health standards and prevent mass gathering.’’

He pointed out that the “LGUs must also be quick to impose granular lockdown on areas where there are (COVID-19) transmissions.’’

President Duterte in one of his Talk to the People episodes said he wanted the people who refused to be injected with the COVID-19 vaccine to be inoculated while they are asleep, a statement which presidential spokesperson Harry Roque later noted was a joke.

In a GMA News report, the independent group OCTA Research team stated that the COVID-19 reproduction rate in Metro Manila has plummeted to 0.58 percent as of October 16 which is considered low risk and is lower than the 0.60 percent COVID-19 reproduction number in NCR on Oct. 14.

Reproduction rate refers to the number of people infected by one case.

The team added that the growth rate of new COVID-19 cases went down by 17 percent for the same period compared to the previous prior with the average daily attack rate (ADAR) or the number of new daily cases per 100,000 at 11.87 from Oct. 10 to 16. (Chito A. Chavez)

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