Eleazar first to get jab in PNP vax rollout
REGARDLESS of the brand of vaccine, Philippine National Police chief General Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar will be the first to get the jab once the PNP starts the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccination for its personnel under the A-4 category.
The top cop will be joined by his Command Group in receiving the first dose as part of the information campaign for the more than 220,000 personnel of the PNP that the vaccination is a responsibility of every citizen and that all the vaccines brand are safe.
As of Thursday, a survey showed that the number of PNP personnel who want to be vaccinated has already risen to 92.23 percent.
“HIndi kami mamimili kung anong brand ng COVID-19 vaccine ang ituturok sa amin. We subscribe to the findings of health experts that all vaccine brands are safe and effective kaya we will take advantage of this free vaccination regardless of the brand,” said the top cop.
The PNP chief explained that aggressive information dissemination has been proven effective in the PNP in convincing PNP personnel to be inoculated.
When Gen. Eleazar was still the commander of the PNP’s Administrative Support on COVID-19 Task Force (ASCOTF), the first survey he initiated revealed that only around 51 percent of PNP personnel wanted to be vaccinated in February this year.
As the PNP-ASCOTF started posting fact sheets and videos from the Department of Health about the benefits of being vaccinated against the COVID-19 using the PNP-COVID Data (CODA) which is accessible to all PNP personnel, the figure continuously increased on a daily basis.
As of June 10, a total of 92.23 percent of the entire police force have expressed willingness to be vaccinated.
So far, the PNP is yet to receive another batch of COVID-19 vaccines that would be used for its personnel under the A4 list.
