By NG Seruela
The Philippine National Police (PNP) reported that 40% of the police nationwide are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 while 47% received their first dose.
In a Laging Handa public briefing on Monday (Aug. 23), PNP Chief Police Gen. Guillermo Eleazar disclosed that 87% of the police force are now equipped with the vaccine against COVID-19.
“At ang effort naman natin, iyong ating vaccination sa ngayon sa buong Pilipinas, iyong PNP 40% na ang fully vaccinated and 47% naman iyong mayroong isang vaccine na. So all in all 87% na iyong at least mayroong bakuna na.”
Eleazar said 52% of the police personnel in Metro Manila are fully vaccinated while 45% received their first jab. He said the organization aims to vaccinate the remaining 3% by the end of August.
“So a total of 97% at least mayroong isang vaccine na lang, iyong 3% na iyon. Ang hangad natin doon na at the end of this month ay lahat ay mayroon ng vaccine, the same manner hahabulin din natin iyong 87% na iyon sa buong Pilipinas,” he said.
In relation to this, the PNP chief disclosed that 98.4% of their personnel out of 222,000 are willing to be vaccinated based on their online continuing survey while 1.6% are not willing due to their “own personal reasons.”
“By the way, doon sa aming online continuing survey ay 98.4% ng aming personnel out of the 222,000 personnel namin ay willing magpabakuna. Iyong 1.6 na natitira, itong kakaunting ito ay may kanya-kanya silang reason. Pero ako ay naniniwala na eventually, lahat naman po iyan ay mababakunahan din.”
Meanwhile, the PNP said 14.1% of its population were infected by COVID-19. Eleazar disclosed that a total of 31,492 police officers have acquired COVID-19. He bared that their active cases are 1,846 or 5.5% of the infected population and 100 or 0.3% fatality were recorded within the police force.
“Sa ngayon ay mayroon kaming 31,492 na na-infect na and that is 14.1% ng aming population. Bagama’t ang amin po namang active cases ay nasa 1,846 or 5.5% itong aming mga infected. Mayroon tayong sa kasawiang-palad ay nasawi na 100 or .3% noong aming mga infected.”
Eleazar said despite a high number of COVID-19 cases, the COVID-19 patients recover quickly. -rir
