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600+ frontliners get COVID jabs in San Juan City

Published Mar 23, 2021 03:50 pm

A total of 629 San Juan City healthcare workers were inoculated on Tuesday, March 23, during the city's third round of COVID-19 vaccinations.

San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora looks on as San Juan healthcare worker vaccinates Dr. Margaret Aguilar, an ophthalmologist from San Juan Medical Center. This is the third vaccine rollout for San Juan medical frontliners bringing the total number of health workers inoculated to 2,726 as of March 23, 2021. (San Juan PIO / MANILA BULLETIN)

Both medical frontliners working in public hospitals and private clinics were vaccinated at the FilOil Flying V Center.

The first to get vaccinated was Dr. Margaret Aguilar, an ophthalmologist from San Juan Medical Center (SJMC). Dr. Aguilar said she decided to get the vaccine because she wants to protect her patients and herself as well.

"I chose SinoVac because it really doesn't matter what brand we get. What matters is the protection we receive from the vaccine. I see patients so I want to make sure I protect them by protecting myself," Dr. Aguilar said.

The San Juan City local government said that those who were inoculated registered for the program and are part of Priority Group A1.5 which includes Department of Health (DOH) employees (swabbers, contact tracers, and emergency transport officers), employees of the City Health Office, Department of Education healthcare workers in local health and nutrition sections, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office employees working as swabbers, contact tracers, and emergency transport officers, Barangay Health Workers, and members of the Barangay Health Emergency Response Team (BHERT) who are directly involved with the city's COVID-19 response.

San Juan City Mayor Francisco Zamora said it was his first time to attend a vaccination program after completing his quarantine, He tested positive for COVID-19 last March 1.

The first rollout was done last March 6 with health care workers receiving vaccines made by SinoVac, and the second rollout on March 11, where they were given choices between AstraZeneca and SinoVac.

“While this is my first time to attend the actual vaccination rollout to our frontliners, I have been on top of it while on quarantine," Zamora said.

"I am happy with how the first two were executed, but I am glad to finally be present and see it for myself,” he added.

As of March 11, 181 medical workers from SJMC received vaccine doses made by SinoVac while 143 received doses from AstraZeneca.

Medical staff from St. Martin de Porres Charity Hospital and Cardinal Santos Medical Center (CSMC) have also received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

As of March 23, there are now 35,805 total registrants for the city's COVID-19 vaccination registration or 41.93 percent of the target population of 85,400 individuals to get vaccinated.

This is equivalent to 70 percent of the total population of the city to achieve herd immunity.

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