SunStar More VSMMC healthcare workers say yes to Sinovac
COVID VACCINATIONS. Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center health workers were among the first in the Visayas to be inoculated with Sinovac’s vaccine on Thursday, March 4, 2021. / Amper Campana
+ March 04, 2021 THOUGH hesitant at first, the number of healthcare workers (HCWs) at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City who consented to be inoculated with Sinovac’s CoronaVac Covid-19 vaccine has increased as of Wednesday, March 3, 2021.
VSMMC chief Dr. Gerardo Aquino Jr. said 1,246 HCWs of the hospital have already agreed to be vaccinated.
Aquino, 56, was the first to get the Sinovac vaccine during a ceremony for the first vaccine rollout in the Visayas and Mindanao held inside the new Center for Behavioral Sciences building of the VSMMC at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 4.
March 04, 2021 DEPARTMENT of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III on Thursday, March 4, 2021, said they will look into the vaccination of government officials using the Sinovac vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
Duque said the prioritization framework, which gives healthcare workers first priority in getting vaccinated, should be followed given the limited supply of vaccines.
He said the estimated 1.7 million healthcare workers in the country need a total of 3.4 million doses. The 600,000 doses of CoronaVac, the vaccine developed by Sinovac, can vaccinate only about 17 percent.
President Rodrigo Duterte had ordered vaccine czar and National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr., NTF deputy chief implementer Vince Dizon and Metro Manila Development Authority chairman Benhur Abalos to get inoculated in a bid to boost confidence in the vaccine.
More workers in Cebu City hospital willing to be vaccinated with Sinovac, chief says
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 4) A top of official of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City said more of their personnel have expressed willingness to receive China’s Sinovac vaccines.
“For the past few days
tumataas iyong nagbibigay ng consent
kahit alam nila na may isa pang brand
na parating,” Dr. Gerardo Aquino, chief of VSMMC, said in a briefing, referring to the expected arrival of AstraZeneca vaccine on Thursday evening. “
Lalo na siguro pagkatapos ng araw na ito… we are expecting