Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan is seeking a downgrade of the city’s COVID-19 alert status to alert level 1 after reporting that the city had already vaccinated 73 percent of its senior citizens. | Futch Anthony Inso
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan announces that the city has already vaccinated 73 percent of its senior citizens.
Chan made the announcement, during the “Bida Tungo sa New Normal” roadshow that was held at Jpark Island Resort and Waterpark in Barangay Maribago, Lapu-Lapu City.
He said that they came up with this figure after they reconciled their data of senior citizens who were inoculated with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Chan said that some senior citizens that have already been vaccinated were listed in a different category, such as the A1 category or medical frontliners.
Other senior citizens were not also recorded since they had themselves vaccinated in other areas.
Due to this development, Chan formally appealed to the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) to downgrade their COVID alert status to level 1.
Currently, Lapu-Lapu City is placed under alert level 2.
“With this development, I would like to take the chance to appeal to IATF to place Lapu-Lapu City under (alert) level 1 category,” Chan said.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, who was one of the speakers at the event, congratulated Chan for achieving more than 70 percent of senior citizens, who were already vaccinated.
He also assured the mayor that they would review the alert level status of the city.
“I commend the leadership under Mayor [Junard] “Ahong” [Chan] of Lapu-Lapu City for having reached this,” Duque said.
Aside from Duque, Secretary Vivencio Dizon, deputy chief implementer and testing czar of the National Task Force Against COVID-19, was also present during the activity on Friday morning, March 18, 2022.
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