PNP assures acceptance of all COVID-19 vaccine types

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief PGen. Guillermo Eleazar assured that police personnel will not be selective and will accept any type of COVID-19 vaccine.

He stated that over 92 percent of PNP personnel are willing to be inoculated, a significant jump from earlier surveys.

Eleazar, along with other senior officers, will be among the first to receive the vaccine to encourage others.

The vaccination for essential workers, including uniformed personnel under the A4 priority list, is rolling out but remains non-mandatory for PNP members.

The PNP has vaccination teams on standby and over 16,000 officers have already been vaccinated as they belong to earlier priority groups.

Eleazar advised policemen to utilize vaccination programs offered by local government units while awaiting their official vaccine allocation.

The PNP Administrative Support for Covid-19 Task Force (ASCOTF) has been disseminating fact sheets and videos from the Department of Health (DOH) about the benefits of vaccination through the PNP-Covid Data (CODA) platform.