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File photo March 04, 2021 NO LOCAL government officials will be inoculated with the Sinovac vaccine yet as all 7,200 doses in the first batch that arrived on March 2, 2021 are intended for healthcare workers, the Department of Health Central Visayas (DOH 7) clarified.
Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, DOH 7 spokesperson, issued the clarification Wednesday, March 3, after two Cebu City councilors said they were willing to be vaccinated to build trust in the vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
Except for Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) deputy chief implementer for the Visayas Melquiades Feliciano, Loreche said all vaccinees at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) on Thursday, March 4, will be medical frontliners.
March 03, 2021 NINETY-EIGHT percent of the total personnel of the Police Regional Office-Davao Region (PRO-Davao) are willing to be inoculated with Covid-19 vaccine.
PRO-Davao Spokesperson Police Major Eudisan Gultiano said in a press conference on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, that over 8,500 out of the 9,000 police in the region are willing to be inoculated with the vaccine, based on their recently conducted survey.
Those who were included in the survey were police personnel from different provinces in Davao de Oro, Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Davao del Sur, and Davao Occidental and in Davao City.
Gultiano said some of those who refused to be injected with Covid-19 vaccine cited personal reasons such as religious belief, while others cited their fears of injection.
Day One of the government's vaccination program has been a resounding success after more people got vaccinated beyond the government's expectation, Malacañang said Tuesday.
March 02, 2021 THE vaccination in Davao City is set to begin on Friday, March 5, after the arrival of 12,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine from Sinovac Biotech Ltd on Tuesday morning, March 2.
The vaccines from Manila arrived at the Francisco Bangoy International Airport, also known as Davao International Airport, on a Philippine Airlines flight around 6:40 a.m. of March 2.
The vaccines were immediately transported to the Department of Health Davao Center for Health Development (DOH-DCHD).
The arrival of Covid-19 vaccines in Davao City was just two days after 600,000 doses of Sinovac s CoronaVac vaccines were received by the Philippines on Sunday, February 28.
The vaccines arrived earlier than expected. Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said on Monday, March 1, that vaccines were expected to be transported to Davao City on March 5 and 6.
A vaccination simulation exercise at the A. Mabini Elementary School vaccination site in Davao City. The COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in the city will start on March 5 with the arrival of the vaccines.
DAVAO CITY, March 3 (PIA)- The vaccination roll out for Davao City will commence on March 5, according to Dr. Ashley Lopez, acting City Health Officer and focal person for COVID-19 concerns.
He said Vaccine Czar Secretary Carlito Galvez and Health Secretary Francisco Duque III will be coming to the city to grace the occasion.
Lopez said the city will still follow the priority listing as recommended by the Department of Health grouped from A, B to C.