URBANFOREST The quarantine facility at the Nayong Pilipino Foundation (NPF) property in Entertainment City, Para帽aque City, is already the biggest inMetro Manila, but the Department of Tourism has endorsed the further construction of a 鈥渕egavaccination鈥� complex. Around 500 trees will be felled to give way to the planned vaccination center, according to NPF Executive Director Lucille Karen Malilong-Isberto. 鈥擭AYONG PILIPINO FOUNDATION PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines 鈥� A government mega vaccination hub that can administer as many as 10,000 COVID-19 vaccines daily will open next month, after the project in a Nayong Pilipino property was stalled for months due to opposition from environmental advocates and even from Nayong Pilipino鈥檚 own board.
鈥淵es, it will definitely push through. Opening [is in] August,鈥� said Vince Dizon, deputy chief secretary of the National Task Force Against COVID-19, on Sunday.
The Supreme Court last week junked a petition to stop the project, clearing any legal impediment for civil works on a reclaimed area in Para帽aque City.
Business tycoon Enrique Razon Jr. had offered to build a P250-million drive-through and walk-in vaccination facility on a portion of the 10-hectares reclaimed land near the Entertainment City.