It’s almost criminal to spend a mere five hours in Boracay, which was what I did last July 7. It was also the most productive five hours I’ve had there without even getting a tan, because by the time I left the island, 500 more tourism workers had received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
This was made possible by our National Task Force (NTF) for COVID-19 chief implementer and vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., our testing czar and deputy chief implementer Secretary Vince Dizon, and the rest of the NTF team who listened to the Department of Tourism’s call to include tourism front-liners in the vaccination priority list.
The first roll-out in Boracay finally ha…
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