LGUs ordered to convince unvaxxed constituents to get Covid vaccine amid Omicron BA.4 subvariant threat

The Department of the Interior and Local Government directed all local government units to scour their areas and encourage the unvaccinated and those eligible to get Covid-19 booster shots to be inoculated against the virus.

With this looming danger, Año said that the LGUs must maximize its resources in urging the unvaxxed and booster-eligible population to get vaccinated “as a precautionary measure versus a more transmissible Omicron variant and possible community transmission.” The patient who was asymptomatic was confirmed positive with the more transmissible variant from a specimen collected on May 8, 2022.

He also underscored that even the vaccinated must be urged to get booster shots as the said variant can evade Covid-19 vaccination especially if its efficacy waned over time. The DOH said in its statement that “while the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has not observed any severity in BA.4, faster transmission will lead to a spike in cases that could overwhelm our hospitals and clinics.”

Likewise the LGUs were directed to activate their BHERTs in 2020 to conduct visits in the homes of individuals possibly inflicted with Covid-19; initiate contact-tracing; and, report, on a daily basis, the condition of prospective and confirmed Covid-19 cases among others.

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