Bacolod City – Negros Occidental governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said getting vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is no longer a question of choice but a moral obligation.

Lacson issued this statement as he joined President Rodrigo Duterte in his plea for every Filipino to get vaccinated.

"At this point, getting vaccinated has gone beyond the question of choice, it has now become our moral obligation," he said.

The governor also said that the President's 6th and last SONA revealed his hopes upon his assumption of office, the achievements of his administration, the challenges during his term, and how the pandemic forced him to respond with urgency to the unprecedented events as they unfold.

Lacson said that the President's call for rebound and recovery programs, the retooling  and upscaling of workers for better job opportunities is decisively pivotal.

"For while we are in the midst of battling the COVID-19 virus, we also need to make provisions for the recovery of our economy. I am also with the President in his plan to pursue the creation of the Center for Disease Prevention and Control and the Virology and Vaccine Institute of the Philippines," the governor said.
(Dolly Yasa via The Daily Guardian (TDG), photo courtesy of TDG)