PH Red Cross continues deployment of 'Bakuna Bus' around Metro Manila, Bulacan

The Philippine Red Cross' (PRC) said that its "Bakuna Bus" continues to travel around Metro Manila and Bulacan to reach and vaccinate individuals in far-flung communities.

PRC said that this program is part of PRC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sen. Dick Gordon’s vision to hasten the vaccination program in the country to protect individuals from the deadly virus.

The PRC Bakuna Bus intensifies PRC’s fight against COVID-19 through the continuous deployment of Bakuna Bus and Bakuna Bus operation. According to the DOH, 70.76 percent of the target population had been vaccinated.

Despite the lower number of COVID-19 cases reported in the country, Gordon urged the public to get vaccinated via the PRC Bakuna Bus.

The Bakuna Bus will travel to the different barangays in Tugatong, Tinajeros, and Tonsuya, Malabon to inoculate unvaccinated individuals starting March 7. Simultaneously, a PRC Bakuna Bus will go to Barangays Bagumbayan, Bangkulasi, NBBS Proper, NBBS Dagat-Dagatan, and San Rafael, Navotas, to provide booster shots to bed-ridden and senior members of the community from March 7 until March 11.

The deployment of the Bakuna Bus will end this week, with a last visit to Bulacan on March 10.

"We initiated the Bakuna Bus and Bakuna Centers in the Philippine Red Cross to help the government in making vaccination accessible to people in far-flung areas. We are not yet done with our war against COVID-19, but together we can put an end to it by getting vaccinated,” Gordon said.

On March 7, PRC vaccinated 2,203 individuals through the Bakuna Buses, Bakuna Centers, and Bakuna teams in the different local chapters nationwide. To date, PRC has administered 1,061,124 doses of COVID-19 vaccines since it started its vaccination program last March 2021.