Published February 10, 2021 2:37pm San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora on Wednesday asked Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to allow him to be the first person to be inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine in the city. In a letter he read during the visit of National Task Force against COVID-19 in the city, Zamora said he is aware that the priority in the vaccination program are healthcare workers and medical frontliners but he believed that being the first to be inoculated will boost his constituents trust and confidence. “(I) seek your approval.to be the first person to be vaccinated in the City of San Juan. The undersigned is volunteering in order to increase the trust and confidence of our citizens in the vaccination process and to encourage them to have themselves inoculated as well,” he said.
Valenzuela Mayor Rex Gatchalian (FACEBOOK / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
For Gatchalian, there are still “inconsistencies in its application” and in the “draft of its implementing rules.”
“The LTO (Land Transportation Office) has to take it to account na iba iba ang sukat ng mga bata (that children have different body sizes). Hindi mo pe-pwedeng lakihan yung kotse mo, parang mali naman ata na sagot ‘yun,” Gatchalian said over Teleradyo on Friday, Feb. 5.
Gatchalian’s remark came after the LTO expressed plans to finally implement the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act which requires the installation of appropriate child car seats in private vehicles for passengers aged 12 and below and shorter than 4’11”.
Published February 4, 2021 3:02pm By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Thursday destroyed a total of P904,303,333.46 worth of chemicals and controlled precursors, which were used in the production of shabu. The destruction ceremony, attended by PDEA chief Director General Wilkins Villanueva and Mayor Rex Gatchalian, happened at the Green Plant Management, Incorporated (GPMI) in Barangay Punturin, Valenzuela City. Aside from the controlled precursors and essential chemicals, other laboratory apparatus were also destroyed. The PDEA said a total of 259,749.07 liters of liquid chemicals composed of hydrochloric acid, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, sulfuric acid, acetic anhydride, acetic acid, ethanol, methanol, ammonia, isopropyl alcohol, cyclohexane, diethyl ether, and propylene glycol were destroyed through chemical treatment.
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Published January 20, 2021, 8:04 PM
Valenzuela City is preparing for the upcoming coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, with Mayor Rex Gatchalian seeing to it that a facility for its storage is already set up.
Gatchalian through photos posted on social media Wednesday showed the local government’s ongoing effort to prepare the Estrella Cold Storage Facility in Barangay Lawang Bato that will soon serve as the storage for the city’s COVID-19 vaccine.
“We’ll work with them on the storage and logistics of our incoming vaccines,” he said after his visit to the facility.
The local government recently said it will acquire vaccine from British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for the 70 percent of its total population or around 320,000 residents.