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The answer varies, depending on which local government unit (LGU) you ask.
Last month, Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia said the Provincial Government would wait for the National Government to issue guidelines. After all, the final decision rests on the latter. And even if the LGU decides to buy a vaccine of its own choice, Manila still needs to be a party to the sale.
Anyway, she would rather focus on programs to help small businesses that have been affected by the economic downturn as a result of the long lockdown to prevent the spread of the disease.
In Cebu City, Mayor Edgardo Labella initially said he would adopt a wait-and-see attitude, but he also announced that the City had allocated a P500 million budget for the purchase of vaccines.
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Secretary Martin Andanar of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO). (File photo)
+ January 19, 2021 THE National Government will start giving Covid-19 vaccine shots to medical frontliners, senior citizens and indigents in Cebu by the middle of February 2021.
Thus said Secretary Martin Andanar of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) during his visit to Cebu on Tuesday, Jan. 19.
Andanar led the PCOO’s #ExplainExplainExplain campaign, which focuses on explaining to the different localities government’s strategy on the use of Covid-19 vaccines.
“We want to start it as soon as possible, especially in major cities with a high attack rate Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, Metro Davao, Cagayan de Oro,” Andanar said.