The NCAA announced that it’s in the process of securing COVID-19 vaccines for its student athletes and officials. “We will finance the inoculation,” said NCAA Management Committee Chairman, Fr. Vic Calvo during the online PSA Forum.
Calvo said they asked for the help of Dr. Jose Paulo Campos, the League Policy Board Member and Emilio Aguinaldo College President (whose family partly owns Unilab), which is the distributor of the Covovax COVID-19 vaccine brand here in the Philippines.
“We were told by Dr. Campos it (Covovax) will be available by May, so we have to start falling in line. The terms are okay and EAC as member of the NCAA will also help us,” said Calvo with full of confidence as he shares the good news
The country’s oldest collegiate league has joined the queue for the acquisition of the vaccines after the national government had recently announced that the private companies could now also purchase vaccines on their own
With or without the vaccines, the NCAA said that it will get Season 96 going on the first week of May, with initially two events – online chess and online taekwondo. This will be shown live on GMA 7 Network.
Calvo said the league is now also planning to hold a hybrid online event for volleyball and basketball, while assuming the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Department of Education (DepEd) will approve it.
“Definitely, one thing is for sure, we will push through with it,” said Calvo.
Additional Report
Photo Source: https://www.advocatesomi.com/
https://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/
