Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez. Image: Instagram/@ogiealcasid
Celebrity couple Regine Velasquez and Ogie Alcasid both had their COVID-19 vaccines and encouraged others to also get their jabs.
Alcasid showed a photo of him and Velasquez giving a thumbs-up as they had their shots administered to them, as seen his Instagram page yesterday, April 17.
“Kaming mag asawa ay may [comorbidities] kaya nakakuha po kami sa [Quezon City local government] ng slot at kami ay napabakunahan na,” he said. (My wife and I have comorbidities so we received a slot from the Quezon City local government and we have already been vaccinated.)
He did not specify which vaccine they received but Quezon City has already given its residents at least 100,000 doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac and AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 jabs as of Friday, April 16.
“Sa mga taga-QC, download po natin ang EZ consult app para maka rehistro na po tayo at antayin natin ang abiso sa email natin,” Alcasid said as he urged others to also get vaccinated. (To those living in Quezon City, download the EZ consult app so that you can get registered and wait for an email advisory.)
The government is currently vaccinating people under the A1 to A3 categories, which covers medical frontline workers, senior citizens and people with comorbidities. The A4 category which covers transport workers, market vendors and other essential workers is expected to go up the vaccination priority list in May. JB
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