RTF holds ceremonial vaccination of gov’t employees under A4 By Doreen Marielle Rosales
In an effort to promote the vaccination for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Caraga Regional Task Force on COVID-19 (RTF COVID-19) conducted a ceremonial vaccination for employees of government agencies who are part of the A4 priority group on Friday, July 23, at SM City Butuan.
the best way to combat COVID-19. We don’t know when this pandemic will end but we are sure that the vaccination is a tool to prevent and to decrease the transmission of this deadly virus,” said RTF COVID-19 Chairperson and Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Caraga Regional Director Liza Mazo.
These agencies are members of the task force that provide essential services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dir. Mazo and the remaining 20 employees from various government agencies such as the OCD, Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD), National Housing Authority (NHA), Department of Information and Communications
“We launched it as a way of promoting the COVID-19 vaccines, that these are safe and that getting vaccinated is
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Technology (DICT), Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and DOST – Pagasa, Department of Agriculture (DA), National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM), Commission on Human Rights (CHR), Philippine National Police (PNP), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) who participated in the ceremony received Caraga INFOCUS