THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Quezon City local government today launched mobile testing and vaccination against Covid- 19.
Charge D’Affaires Heather Variava of the US Embassy and Mayor Joy Belmonte, said the deployment of mobile vaccination and testing teams are expected to expand and strengthen the city’s pandemic response efforts.
It will also benefit households with senior citizens and vulnerable people, and reach disadvantaged families residing in hard-to-reach areas.
Also in line with the national government’s plan to prepare for potential surges and to ramp-up the vaccination roll-out, USAID will be supporting Quezon City’s ProtekTODO campaign by mobilizing 30 healthcare workers to assist in vaccine and testing operations in six districts.
"We in the Quezon City government are profoundly grateful to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for choosing to support the city’s COVID-19 response, " Belmonte said.
The mobile vaccination teams will help contribute an estimated 12,000 shots monthly for people of Quezon City, while the mobile testing initiative will help contribute about 5,000 tests on top of the local government’s 20,000 monthly testing coverage.
The USAID has been providing humanitarian and technical assistance to the country, that has already reached P2 billion in support of the country’s COVID-19 response.