Manila LGU opens walk-in vaccinations for A4 category

The Manila government allowed walk-in recipients for COVID-19 vaccination who are under the A4 category in the prioritization list,  including non-residents who work in the city.

Interviewed on ANC on Friday, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno said the local government was offering vaccinations to walk-in recipients since only a few scheduled recipients are showing up to get inoculated.

“We cannot just keep on shooing away people that are not from the city but they work in the city. Because two things may happen to us: they bring us the virus or we send them the virus,” he said.

Moreno pointed out that the goal to fight the spread of COVID-19 is to vaccinate enough people, especially in the National Capital Region, to achieve herd immunity as soon as possible.

Experts from the World Health Organization said that vaccinating 65% to 70% of a population could be enough to attain herd immunity.

According to the WHO, herd immunity or population immunity is a concept used for vaccination in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached.

Moreno added that the Manila LGU can accommodate thousands of recipients.

Starting June, the national government started the inoculation of the A4 category or the essential workers' group that covers around 28 million.  — DVM, GMA News