Published July 19, 2021, 1:05 PM
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Monday, July 19, said that it has issued regulations on use of schools as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) isolation areas or vaccination centers to give way to infrastructure projects.
Photo shows Lawang Bato National High School, Valenzuela City taken on March 4, 2021. (DepEd Public Affairs Service)
“The pandemic did not hamper our mission to provide conducive and motivating facilities,” Education Secretary Leonor Briones said.
The issuance of the regulations on the use of schools as isolation areas to give way to infrastructure projects, DepEd said, aims to guarantee that improvement of education facilities will continue amidst the health crisis.
“China will give us another 400 doses, making their donation to this country at one million doses,” Duterte said. He did not name the brand of the vaccine. China already donated to the Philippines 600,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines, which started the country's much-awaited national vaccination program against COVID-19.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday told health workers that he will not hold it against them if they turn down the Chinese Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, saying that doctors were discriminating when it came to medicine.
FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on March 3, 2021. KARL NORMAN ALONZO/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said the government’s national vaccination drive is moving at “full throttle” in time for the proposed face-to-face (F2F) pilot implementation.
Duterte made this assurance during the simultaneous inauguration of school buildings at the Gen. Gregorio H. Del Pilar Integrated School and Virginia Ramirez-Cruz High School in Barangay Sta. Ana in Bulakan, Bulacan.
“I assure you that the government is exerting all efforts to go full throttle in this Covid-19 vaccination program to ensure the safety of students before the resumption of the face-to-face learning,” he said in his speech.
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