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EXTRA PROTECTION. Medical front-liners and healthcare workers from the Quezon City General Hospital wait for their turn to get vaccinated with the Covid-19 booster shot on Wednesday. On Thursday (Nov. 25, 2021), the QC government also started the administration of booster shots to senior citizens and the immunocompromised. (Photo grabbed from QC government Facebook page) MANILA - The Quezon City government on Thursday rolled out coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) booster jabs for senior citizens and immunocompromised individuals. As of 8 a.m. Thursday, the city government has recorded a total of 2,816 elderlies belonging to the A2 category who have registered for the booster shot through the QC Vax Easy platform. Among the vaccination sites that were open for the administration of the booster shots for senior citizens are the Balingasa High School and Toro Hills Elementary School in District 1; Justice Cecilia Munoz Palma High School in District 2; Quirino High School in District 3; U
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Retail giant SM North EDSA opened on April 12 a vaccination site “to cater to mall employees who reside in the city and are medical frontliners, senior citizens, and persons with comorbidities” to help the local government expedite its vaccination process.
Aside from mall employees, qualified residents living in the barangay and in nearby villages where the mall is located were also inoculated.
“The city has had numerous partnerships with the private sector throughout the pandemic, and we’re glad to be working with them still as we vaccinate our residents and immunize them against COVID,” Mayor Joy Belmonte said in a statement Tuesday, adding the partnership “addresses the lack of available healthcare workers who will conduct vaccination among residents.”