MANILA, Philippines — Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treas on Monday appealed for more COVID-19 vaccines to stop the surge in COVID-19 cases in his jurisdiction.
In a televised briefing, Treas said the government should also give more vaccines to Region 6 or Western Visayas the way it did with the so-called NCR Plus 8 covering Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, Metro Davao, Bulacan, Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Pampanga, and Rizal.
“The only way we can really stop the surge is for the national government to add more vaccines in the same way that you lowered the cases in the NCR Plus 8 by flooding the LGUs in NCR Plus 8 with vaccines,” Treas said.
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