Over 67K cops fully vaccinated vs. Covid-19

Over 67,000 members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).

In a statement on Wednesday, PNP chief, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, said 67,498 or 30.47 percent of the police force’s 221,000 personnel nationwide have completed two doses of Covid-19 vaccine while 66,968 or 30.38 percent have already received their first dose.

“With this, there are only 87,040 or 39 percent of our police personnel who has not been vaccinated as of Wednesday. Sa pagdating ng mga karagdagang mga bakuna sa bansa, umaasa po tayo na sa mga susunod na buwan ay fully vaccinated na po ang buong kapulisan (With the arrival of additional vaccines in the country, we hope that the entire police force will be fully vaccinated in the coming months),” Eleazar said.

As of Wednesday, another 77 PNP personnel have recovered from the Covid-19, bringing the total of recoveries to 29,899.

Another 114 new cases were also reported, raising the active cases to 1,812 out of a total of 31,799 infections since the start of the pandemic.

Meanwhile, a police officer from Oriental Mindoro is the PNP’s latest Covid-19 fatality, raising its death toll to 88.

“The 88th fatality of the PNP is a 48-year-old Police Lieutenant Colonel who tested positive of Covid-19 last August 7 and was immediately brought to a nearby hospital but the day after, he was pronounced dead by his attending physician due to acute respiratory distress syndrome”, Eleazar said.

Reports also showed that the cop already received his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine last July 23. (PNA)

Agencies