The Department of Health (DOH) said house-to-house COVID-19 vaccination is a “good strategy” to inoculate more people and to lessen the crowd in vaccination centers.
In a Laging Handa public briefing today (July 31), Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said local government units (LGUs) may conduct house-to-house visits if they have the resources.
Vergeire said house-to-house vaccination will allow proper social distancing of vaccine recipients.
According to Vergeire, this will also encourage the residents to get jabbed.
“Unang-una, masisiguro natin na hindi magkukumpul-kumpol ang mga tao. Kung mayroon mang iikot hindi na kailangang pumunta pa ang mga kababayan natin sa isang lugar para doon mag-antay mabakunahan. Pangalawa, mas maganda kasi masusuyod natin ang bahay-bahay,” she said.
“Maganda po iyang strategy na iyan if LGUs have the resources, maari po nating gawin iyan,” she added.
In Metro Manila, LGUs are targeting to inoculate between 180,000 to 200,000 individuals among all of the cities and the lone municipality in the region.
By doing this, Vergeire said the National Capital Region might be able to vaccinate 70 percent of its population by September.
“So ito po ay susuportahan naman ng ating national government at titingnan natin kung paano rin natin sila ma-ga-guide on how we can better do this so that it can be something that can be used for us to protect our citizens from this Delta variant,” she said.
While the region will be placed under enhanced community quarantine from August 6 to 20, Vergeire assured that vaccination efforts will continue.
Stricter community quarantine measures were put in place following the threat of the more infectious Delta variant, which has infected over 200 people in the Philippines. (PNA) / CF -rir
