Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, PNP deputy chief for administration, said the police force received an additional 400 doses last Tuesday for the vaccination of its police medical frontliners. The PNP rolled out its vaccination program last Monday.Eleazar made the remark along with an announcement that the percentage of PNP personnel who committed to have themselves inoculated using the current supply of vaccines has also increased.
As of Thursday, a total of 985 PNP personnel already received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccines. There has been a steady rise in the number of PNP personnel who are getting the jabs, with 125 cops vaccinated on March 1; 180 on March 2; 353 on March 3; and 327 on March 4. Meanwhile, Eleazar said that they have yet to confirm whether additional vaccine doses from British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca will also be alloted for the police force.
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