A medical worker extracts a dose of Pfizer vaccine during the vaccination rollout for senior citizens at the covered court of Brokenshire Hospital in Davao City on Thursday – Dabawenyos may now get their preferred brand of anti-COVID-19 vaccine, a move that the city government hopes would encourage more individuals to get inoculated amid the surge in cases and the threat posed by the highly contagious Omicron variant.
Locals were previously discouraged from choosing a specific brand of vaccine, particularly that of US-made Cominarty of Pfizer-BioNTech and Spikevax of Moderna as supplies were limited then. “The mayor is fast-tracking the preferred brand of the people. Our councilors and mayor are right that people should be given the choice. There are people who have brand preference because they have probably studied it to see if this is better than the other. We are working on it,” she added.