March 12, 2021 TWO hospitals in Mandaue City started inoculating their medical workers against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) on Thursday, March 11, 2021. Jake Ian Seno, officer-in-charge of the Mandaue City Hospital (MCH), and Merryl Marie Maunes, MCH’s chief nurse, were injected with CoronaVac, the vaccine manufactured by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech Ltd., along with 73 other medical workers of the hospital. Seno and Maunes said they both didn’t have any second thoughts about getting vaccinated, adding that they were fully aware of its benefits. In fact, Maunes said she was excited that she, her co-workers and her family would finally get protection against the disease.