MANILA (UPDATED) - Mayors Lino Cayetano of Taguig and Oscar Malapitan of Caloocan were among the local chief executives in the National Capital Region (NCR) vaccinated against COVID-19.

Cayetano on Monday said he has been vaccinated against COVID-19 with the China-based Sinovac jab, along with government frontliners, senior citizens and adults with comorbidities.

"I urge all Taguigeños to register through Taguig Registry for Access and Citizen Engagement (Trace) to secure your vaccination," he said in a statement.

Cayetano said the city government is expecting additional vaccines from AstraZeneca, Covovax, Covaxin, and Moderna "to arrive by the third quarter of the year."

"This will help the City in achieving its aim of fully inoculating the Taguig citizenry," he said.

On Tuesday, Malapitan said he took the opportunity to get vaccinated with AstraZeneca last week, along with other senior citizens.

“Nung inopen ang senior citizen, sinamantala ko na po, Monday last week po ata,” he said in an interview on TeleRadyo on Tuesday morning.

The city, he said, has run out of AstraZeneca vaccines.

In the same program, Navotas City Mayor Toby Tiangco said he has to monitor first his medical condition before he could avail of the vaccine.

Tiangco said he already consulted with his doctor via teleconsult and was advised to stop taking for one week one of the four maintenance medicines for his asthma.

“Kung di ako mag severe asthma pag hininto ko 'yun, saka pa lang ako pwedeng magpabakuna,” he said.

For his part, Marikina Mayor Marcelino Teodoro said he has decided to wait for the city’s next vaccine allocation to be vaccinated.

“Kulang na kulang na ang bakuna. Napag-desisyunan ko sa susunod na allocation na ako pipila. Kararating lang bakuna namin para sa seniors Lunes pero in an hour ni roll out na namin,” he said.

Manila Mayor Isko Moreno confirmed being vaccinated on Sunday

Governors, mayors and village chiefs were moved up in the country's vaccination priority list, a Department of the Interior and Local Government official earlier said.

Undersecretary Epimaco Densing told ANC that officials will "not need to jump the gun," because they have been upgraded in the priority list of the vaccination program.

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