Bagong Henerasyon Party-list Representative Bernadette Herrera gives her thumbs up after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines against the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19).

Boasting a 95 percent efficacy rate, the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) issued is effective until the pandemic blows over. And being the country with the highest COVID-19 cases, the vaccine could help in preventing the deadly virus.

“Our expectation is that first priority will be given to health care frontliners and the people who will bring the vaccines to the rest of the Filipino people,” Herrera wrote in a statement.

The solon will now leave the intricate storage of the COVID-19 vaccines to the “Metro Manila and other major cities to maintain the low temperatures necessary for the vaccines.”

Herrera also assured the Department of Health that the country’s Rotary International “will continue and be unrelenting in its partnership with the DOH on its vaccination programs for COVID-19, polio, dengue, and other vaccine-preventable diseases.”

The first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines is set to arrive here within the first quarter of 2021.