Solon asks local governments to ease COVID booster shot procedures

A PARTY-LIST representative called on local governments to ease procedures for getting a vaccine booster shot against the coronavirus to encourage more people to get the third jab.

“The vaccination system is seriously flawed. That is partly why we have fallen behind on the vax targets,” BHW Party-list Rep. Angelica Natasha Co said in a statement on Monday.

She cited in particular the requirement for vaccinated persons to register again for the top-up shot.

She said residents of local governments that have online vaccine registration systems should not have to sign up again.

Requiring them to do so would be following a “backward system,” Ms. Co said.

The lawmaker also proposed that local governments set up walk-in sites or dedicated lanes for those getting a booster against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). — Jaspearl Emerald G. Tan