Under this setup, all basketball team members must go through strict protocols including a five-day home quarantine and testing before entering the league’s bubble in Clark, Pampanga. He said the setup could be modeled after the Philippine Basketball Association’s bubble. The national COVID-19 task force is also studying a ‘bubble’ setup for the training of national athletes who will join the SEA Games, Galvez said. Titingnan po namin sa IATF, just in case we have excess sa vaccines pwede po nating pagbigyan,” Galvez said in a briefing when asked about the possibility of including in the vaccine priority list those bound for Vietnam in November for the SEA Games. “Dinidiscuss po iyan … Mayroon pa namang ample time for them to have the vaccination. Galvez said the athletes may have to wait because the initial doses of COVID-19 vaccines that will arrive in the country in the first quarter of the year are reserved for frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable population or elderly people and those with health conditions. Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 3) - National athletes and coaches representing the country in this year’s Southeast Asian Games may be given free COVID-19 shots in case there is excess supply, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez, Jr.
