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EOC VACCINATIONS. Cebu City Councilor and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) deputy implementer Joel Garganera receives a shot of the Sinovac vaccine at the TB Pavilion in Cebu City on Friday, March 12, 2021. / Joel Garganera
+ March 13, 2021 A TOTAL of 114,615 Filipinos have been vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) from March 1 to 10, 2021.
The Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday, March 12, the number constitutes around 6.5 percent of the targeted 1.76 million healthcare workers nationwide.
It also represents around 11 percent of the over one million healthcare workers who are on the masterlist of vaccine recipients.
Nearly nine out of 10, or 101,827, were inoculated with the CoronaVac (Sinovac Biotech vaccine) while 11 percent, or 12,788, received the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine.
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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.
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SunStar File February 26, 2021 DEPARTMENT of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III on Wednesday night, February 24, 2021, said healthcare systems in all regions were still generally in the safe zone as only about half of the facilities designated for the pandemic were in use.
However, Duque said Baguio City was considered a high risk while Lapu-Lapu City (Cebu), Santiago City (Isabela), Makati City, and the provinces of Davao de Oro and Isabela were classified as moderate risk.
Among the regions, Central Visayas and Davao had the highest health care utilization rates (HCUR) of 48 percent and 47 percent, respectively.
The HCUR, which refers to the proportion of beds and ventilators being used by coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) patients, is the parameter used by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the escalation of risk classifications.
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