MORE winners were announced in the “Road to 80” CNMI Covid-19 vaccination campaign.
Last week, Vicente Iriarte won a $2,000 cash prize in the weekly Friday raffle for the vaccinated among the CNMI population.
Campaign spokesman Brad Ruszala said Iriarte will be receiving his winnings after receiving his second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at the Marianas High School vaccination site, Wednesday, Aug. 4.
The campaign headed to Tinian on Friday and handed out more prizes, including a $1,000 cash prize and a brand-new Samsung S20 with two months of free service from IT&E CNMI.
Patricio Fieldad won the $1,000 cash prize, while Shawn Lee Nicolas Borja won the Samsung S20.
In addition, the campaign handed out $20 to each person who received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Tinian, Friday.
Fifty-four people on Tinian received their first dose of the vaccine on Friday.
The Office of the Mayor of the Municipality of Tinian and Aguiguan also handed out five $100 cash special raffle prizes to Moses Reyes, Mary Loise Atalig, Marlena King, Jayver Cruz, and Sheila Mari Borja.
The “Road to 80” vaccination campaign was launched in July and will run until late August in an effort to reach 80% vaccination rate, considered the rate of herd immunity.
There will be weekly drawings every Friday at 5 p.m. for more cash prizes.
Starting Friday, July 16, 2021, weekly winners were chosen at random to bring home these cash prizes: $1,000 for the first week; $1,500 for the second; $2,000 for the third; $2,500 for the fourth; $3,000 for the fifth; $3,500 for the sixth; and $4,000 for the seventh and final week.
The weekly Friday drawings are open for those who are fully vaccinated or registered to be fully vaccinated by 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 27, 2021.
Individuals who have already been vaccinated in the CNMI are automatically entered in the raffle.
Winners will be contacted by phone and email using the information provided on https://www.vaccinatecnmi.com
To claim their prizes, winners will need to provide proof that they are fully vaccinated.
If a winner does not respond within 72 hours of the first time they were contacted, a new winner will be chosen.
Additionally, grand drawing winners will be announced at the Taste of the Marianas main stage on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021.
Grand drawing prizes include a $2,500 “bonus draw,” a $5,000 “mini-grand” prize, a $15,000 “grand prize,” and a 2020 Nissan Rogue Sport SUV.
To date, over 32,000 individuals are eligible for the “Road to 80” weekly Friday drawings.
As of Tuesday, Aug. 3, the CNMI needed 3,462 more individuals within its eligible population to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to finally reach the 80% herd immunity goal.
The “Road to 80” Covid-19 vaccination campaign is a public/private partnership among the CNMI Office of the Governor, the Governor’s Covid-19 Task Force, the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, Bridge Capital LLC, City Trust Bank, Helios Engineering Group, HBR International, IT&E, Joeten Enterprises Inc., the Marianas Visitors Authority, McDonald’s Saipan, the Mobil stations of Oleai, Chalan Kiya, and Kagman, Naked Fish Bar & Grill, POI Aviation, and Tan Holdings Corporation.
The “Road to 80” vaccination campaign would also like to warn its followers of two individuals posing as representatives of the campaign in the comment section of its own social media posts.
Dominic Nicholson and George Hugley have been identified as the two individuals who have been posing as representatives of the campaign, encouraging individuals to reach out to them directly to “claim their winnings.”
Neither Nicholson nor Hugley are official representatives of the campaign and have since been banned from the official campaign Facebook page. Both of their pages have been reported to Facebook.
For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/roadto80cnmi
The Covid-19 vaccine is available for persons 12 years of age or older. To register and schedule an appointment to get vaccinated, visit https://www.vaccinatecnmi.com or call 682-SHOT (7468) between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. any day of the week.
Patricio Fielded, right, poses with his winnings next to Road to 80 spokesman Brad Ruszala.
Shawn Lee Nicolas Borja of the Tinian Department of Public Safety, second right, poses with his winnings alongside Road to 80 spokesman Brad Ruszala and two fellow law enforcement officers.
