MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine delegation bound for the Tokyo Olympics and Southeast Asian Games will finally get inoculated against COVID-19 this week.
Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino said the vaccination begins on Friday at Manila Prince Hotel in Manila.
The inoculation, which is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., will be overseen by secretary Carlito Galvez, chief implementer of the National Task Force against COVID-19, Department of Health (DOH) secretary Francisco Duque III, and secretary Vince Dizon, the country’s COVID-19 testing czar.
“We all know that the IATF has approved the prioritization of vaccination of Olympic-bound and …
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