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+ February 22, 2021 FOR two consecutive weeks, Muntinlupa City held virtual town hall meetings to drum up high participation in its forthcoming Covid vaccination program. Invited to the separate meetings with the theme Bakunado, Protektado were representatives of homeowners groups, religious groups, civic groups, Sangguniang Kabataan, the Gender Development Office and the City Administrator s Office.
During the first meeting held February 10, the resource speakers were Infection Prevention and Control for Committee Chair Charissa Borja-Tabora of Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and Jesusa Joyce Cirunay of the Food and Drug Administration. Ms. Borja-Tabora underscored the safety of vaccines, the process of clinical trials, and the role of vaccines in protecting individuals and communities. Ms. Cirunay discussed the FDA s Emergency Use Authorization and the stringent process and policies for the approval of vaccines.
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Participants in Muntinlupa’s COVID-19 Vaccine Virtual Town Hall Meeting (Muntinlupa PIO / MANILA BULLETIN)
It launched a series of COVID-19 Vaccine Virtual Town Hall Meeting with health professionals from national government agencies.
At least 100 participants from homeowners associations and urban poor groups attended the first meeting done in partnership with the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In the latest results of the city government’s survey on COVID-19 vaccine, 2,567 out of 4,074 respondents, or 63 percent, said they were willing to be vaccinated while 788, or 19.34 percent, said “no” and 719, or 17.65 percent, did not answer and were classified as “unaccounted.”