Navotas mayor clarifies no-show vaccine recipients only ‘last-listed,’ not blacklisted

Navotas City Mayor Toby Tiangco on Wednesday clarified those vaccine recipients who failed to show up on their schedule will only be put last in the lineup of the inoculation program and will not be blacklisted.

Interviewed on CNN Philippines, Tiangco said he misused the term blacklisted.

“Ang tamang term pala ay ‘last-listed’, hindi blacklisted. Ang sinabi ko kahapon blacklisted until matapos lahat ng Navoteño population,” he said.

(I just realized the right term is ‘last-listed’, not blacklisted. I said yesterday blacklisted until the entire Navoteño population completes vaccination.)

In a Facebook post Tuesday, Tiangco warned against "joy reservers."

On Monday, the mayor said almost 500 people scheduled to receive the vaccine dose did not show up in vaccination sites.

“Kaya simula bukas, kapag hindi kayo dumating sa schedule na pinili ninyo, mabablacklist na kayo at hindi na kayo makakapagschedule muli hanggang matapos na magpabakuna ang lahat ng populasyon," he said in a Facebook post.

(So starting tomorrow, if you will not show up on the schedule you picked, you will be blacklisted and you will not be able to set a schedule again until the entire population completes vaccination.)

Tiangco pointed out that people who want to get inoculated are deprived of the chance because of the no-shows considering that the slots for vaccination are limited.

For those who have not received a confirmation text message of their vaccination schedule, the mayor advised them to just take a screenshot of the confirmation for a schedule and present it at the inoculation site.—AOL, GMA News