Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto has signed the contracts of 227 health workers under “emergency hiring” as he acknowledged that concerns of hospital personnel who need to undergo quarantine remain a challenge. | cgonzalesINQ
According to Sotto, the death rate in the city during the ongoing surge of COVID-19 cases is much lower than the number of deaths during the upswing in 2021 due to the Delta variant of the SARS-COV-2 virus.
Registration for vaccination is ongoing via PasigPass even for minors, according to Sotto. He noted that they are still waiting for guidelines of the Department of Health for the vaccination of children aged five to 11.
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