CHURCH JAB SITES. An undated photo shows the Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Barangay Punta Princesa, Cebu City. Archdiocese of Cebu spokesperson, Monsignor Joseph Tan, on Thursday (Oct. 21, 2021) said the Roman Catholic Church in Cebu is willing to lend parishes as venues for vaccination.(PNA photo by John Rey Saavedra) CEBU CITY - The Archdiocese of Cebu welcomes the move of the local government units (LGU) here to utilize parish churches as vaccination sites as a way of encouraging lay faithful to get inoculated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Monsignor Joseph Tan, the archdiocese spokesperson, in Thursday's press briefing for the preparations of the "Kalag-Kalag", cited the Roman Catholic Church's contribution in fighting against the pandemic by volunteering the International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) Convention Center near the Pope John XIII Minor Seminary in Barangay Mabolo to be used as isolation center for symptomatic coronavirus patients. Righ
Department of Health-Central Visayas chief pathologist Dr. Mary Jean Loreche. (File photo) CEBU CITY - Almost all the medical front-liners in Region 7 (Central Visayas) who are eligible for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination have been fully inoculated, a health official said on Thursday. Department of Health (DOH)-Region 7 chief pathologist Dr. Mary Jean Loreche said 99.8 percent or 131,723 out of the 131,989 health workers in the region have been fully vaccinated. "The remaining fraction of the number of medical front-liners who are yet to receive their vaccine are those who are in the far-flung(areas) and vaccinating them becomes a biggest challenge," Loreche said in Filipino during a virtual briefing. She called on the unvaccinated healthcare workers to exert more effort in visiting the inoculation center nearest them so they could achieve 100 percent protection of the region's pool of medical workers. Meanwhile, Loreche, who also acts as spokesperson of t
Project Balik Buhay chairman Edmun Liu. (PNA file photo) CEBU CITY - More than a million residents in Cebu province have been vaccinated against coronavirus disease (Covid-19), a milestone which an official said would translate to a PHP390-billion full-year boost to the local economy. Visayas Vaccination Operations Center (VVOC) spokesperson, Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, said about 1.128 million individuals in the province have received their first dose while those fully vaccinated have reached a total of 1.001 million as of Monday. A VVOC report said a total of about a million doses of vaccines have been administered in the province. It also said "One Cebu", composed of the towns and component cities of the province and the three highly-urbanized cities, has between 3.5 million and 3.6 million population eligible for vaccination. Edmun Liu, Project Balik Buhay chairman, said the milestone in Cebu's vaccination since the rollout started in March this year would mean a boost to