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Vico Sotto: 'Unfair' to grade mayors based on vaccine roll-out when supply isn't enough

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Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto during his State of the City Address at the Tanghalang Pasigueño on the 448th Founding Anniversary of Pasig City, July 2, 2021. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News/File" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/tvpatrol/07/02/vico-sotto.jpg"/><figcaption>Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto during his State of the City Address at the Tanghalang Pasigueño on the 448th Founding Anniversary of Pasig City, July 2, 2021. <em>George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto on Monday called out reports grading local chief executives based on the efficiency and speed of their COVID-19 vaccination programs, saying these are &quot;not accurate&quot; and &quot;unfair.&quot;</p><p>Sotto gave the statement during an online press conference after he was asked why Pasig City was trailing behind other Metro Manila areas in its vaccination program against COVID-19.</p><p>&quot;Paano mo matataasan yung number na yun e wala namang supply ng bakuna? It&#x27;s not a fair number,&quot; he said, referring to a report that ranked Pasig City as the 8th Metro Manila LGU in terms of fully-vaccinated individuals.</p><p>(How can we exceed that number when we don&#x27;t have vaccine supplies?)</p><p>&quot;Kung igre-grade niyo kami o ige-gauge niyo kami o ira-rank niyo kami based on something we can control, that is fair game,&quot; he said.</p><p>(If you are going to grade us or gauge us or rank us based on something we can control, that is fair game.)</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/26/21/pasig-fully-vaccinated-elderly-august">Pasig City set to fully vaccinate all target elderly residents by August</a></li></ul><p>So far, Pasig City has fully vaccinated 192,000 residents or about 20 percent of its population. Some 247,000 others have received their first dose, data from the city government showed.</p><p>&quot;Hindi naman kami nagrereklamo. Sila yung may macro perspective,&quot; he said, referring to national government officials.</p><p>(We are not complaining. They have the macro perspective.)</p><p>&quot;They see the big picture so we trust their judgement. From what I&#x27;ve seen, they&#x27;ve been very fair so hindi kami dapat magreklamo (we should not complain),&quot; he said.</p><p>&quot;Ang importante kapag may natatanggap kaming supplies, inuubos naman namin. That&#x27;s all that we can do,&quot; he said.</p><p>(What&#x27;s important is when we receive supplies, we use them all. That&#x27;s all that we can do.)</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/20/21/pasig-no-mixing-covid-19-vaccines">Pasig cites printing error for 2 different brands on resident&#x27;s COVID-19 vaccination card</a></li></ul><div class="infogram-embed" data-id="_/yFVE69R1WlSdqY3aCsBF" data-title="COVID-19 VACCINE TRACKER PH" data-type="interactive"> </div><script type="text/javascript">!function(e,i,n,s){var t='InfogramEmbeds',d=e.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement('script');o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src='https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js',d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,'infogram-async');</script><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1743880" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto on Monday called out reports grading local chief executives based on the efficiency and speed of their COVID-19 vaccination programs, saying these are 'not accurate' and 'unfair.'

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Vico Sotto: 'Unfair' to grade mayors based on vaccine roll-out when supply isn't enough

Katrina Domingo,

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Published Aug 09, 2021 03:17 PM PHT

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