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Majority of Makati elderly vaccinated vs COVID-19: mayor

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<p>MANILA— Makati City has vaccinated 90 percent of its senior citizens against COVID-19, Mayor Abigail Binay said Thursday.</p><p>Some 39,958 elderly residents have been fully vaccinated, while 43,000 first doses have been administered, according to the mayor.</p><p>The city conducted a survey and went house-to-house to check on unvaccinated senior citizens, she said. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/02/21/philippines-misses-target-vaccination-seniors-comorbidities">Philippines misses vaccination targets on elderly, adults with comorbidities</a></li></ul><p>&quot;Nagbahay-bahay, on the spot &#x27;yung registration. After they register pwede na sila pumunta sa vaccination. It’s as if nag-walk-in sila,&quot; she told ANC&#x27;s Headstart.</p><p>(We went house-to-house and the registration was on the spot. After they register, they can proceed to the vaccination site. It&#x27;s as if they walked in the inoculation center.)</p><p>Makati also gave P1,000 in grocery gift checks for the elderly willing to get the jab, she said.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="A health worker administers the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine to a resident at the Makati Medical Center on May 12, 2021. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/08/12/20210512-makati-medical-center-pfizer-vaccination-gc-0078.jpg"/><figcaption>A health worker administers the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine to a resident at the Makati Medical Center on May 12, 2021. <em>George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>&quot;You&#x27;d be surprised even those coming from the villages talagang pinipilahan &#x27;yung (line up for the) P1,000 gift check. You&#x27;d be surprised,&quot; she said.</p><p>The city has an &quot;oversupply&quot; of COVID-19 vaccines donated by global alliance COVAX Facility which are only supposed to be inoculated on health workers, senior citizens, persons with comorbidities (A1-A3) and indigent groups (A5), Binay said.</p><p>&quot;It is an over and undersupply. We have so much for the categories of A1, A2, A3 and A5 but we have a shortage under A4 (essential workers,&quot; she said.</p><p>Some 11,614,590 Filipinos have received the &quot;complete protection&quot; of COVID-19 vaccines as of Monday, government said.</p><p>Some 13,375,452 have yet to receive their second dose, while a total of 24,990,042 jabs have been administered, according to the National Task Force Against COVID-19.</p><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>

Makati City has vaccinated 90 percent of its senior citizens against COVID-19, Mayor Abigail Binay said Thursday.