The local government of Quezon City has deployed 493,000 vaccines against COVID-19 during the reimposition of Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR) last August 6.

“Every vaccine we jab is a life we save. So we made full use of all our registration processes - barangay-assisted, QCVaxEasy Portal, company-assisted, homeowners association-assisted and bakuna nights to reach our target individuals and vaccinate them during the heightened quarantine period when we were given an increased and stable supply of vaccines,” Mayor Joy Belmonte said.

A total of 415,923 first doses and 77,077 second doses of COVID vaccines have been administered to residents and workers under the A1 to A5 priority groups from August 6-20.

As of August 21, the city government has administered 2,143,698 vaccine doses.

More than 1.4 million individuals or 86.36 percent of the 1.7 million target population have already received their first doses, while more than 675,000 or 42.06 percent of the same target population have been inoculated with the second dose.

“The national government recognizes that Quezon City has the largest city population in the entire country and cumulatively, the most number of cases. With that, they continue to support our vaccination program by providing an appropriate number of vaccine doses to us,” Mayor Belmonte said.

All vaccines allocated to the city were rolled out immediately with an average of 200,000 individuals inoculated per week with at least one dose.

Mayor Belmonte assured that their vaccination efforts will continue even when they reach their vaccine population target.

“We are closer now to our target but this does not mean that we will stop. Instead, we will continue to vaccinate the adult population as long as there are still vaccines for all of us," she said.