said Manila was planning to roll out the vaccination program like its free drive-thru COVID-19 testing centers.
The City of Manila announced that it had signed a deal with AstraZeneca and allocated an initial budget of P250 million for 800,000 doses of vaccine. This would be enough to cover 400,000 people.on February 3 that the city government was also eyeing vaccinating nonresident workers and students in the city.
The city government has yet to announce its plans for the rollout, but it has so far allocated P1 billion for its immunization program. It also entered into aMayor Toby Tiangco said in the same online forum on February 3 that the city’s vaccination program would also cover nonresident workers and students in the city.
In a Telegram message to Rappler, Tiangco said qualified students would have to declare that they would prefer to be vaccinated in the LGU of their choice through an"attestation form" before availing themselves of the vaccine.Davao City
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