MANILA, Philippines — Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Monday received her first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
In a statement on Monday, Belmonte said she got her vaccine at 1 p.m. at a vaccination site in Ateneo de Manila University.
She received the Chinese drugmaker Sinovac BioTech’s CoronaVac vaccine, she said.
“Although I am part of the A1 category, I decided to wait until most of those in the identified priority groups had been vaccinated. Also, after just recovering from COVID-19 last month, I did not see the need for me to be vaccinated immediately,” she said.
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