Sotto receives Sinovac jab
SENATE President Vicente Sotto III on Saturday received his first dose of vaccine against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Sotto was accompanied by his wife, Helen Gamboa-Sotto, who is also vaccinated.
“After A1, A2 and A3 Senate employees, finally had mine although I’m A2. I took what was available upon arrival. Had Sinovac!” he said in a Viber message to Senate Media.
During their plenary session last Tuesday, the Senate chief said 73 percent of the chamber’s employees have already been inoculated against the novel coronavirus.
Senators supposedly agreed that they be placed last in the vaccination line, with medical frontliners (A1), senior citizens (A2) and persons with comorbidities (A3) as their priorities.
Aside from Sotto, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, who is 75 years old, also got his first dose of coronavirus vaccine in San Juan City last April 10.
Senator Sonny Angara on Saturday also confirmed that he has received AstraZeneca vaccine.
