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.
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.
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Davao City has logged 12,764 cases with 792 active. The number of active cases is down 37 percent from 1,259 recorded last Feb. 15.
In the Davao region, 85 new COVID-19 cases were recorded Sunday, pushing the number of cases to 19,462 with 1,668 active.
Seven deaths in the region were recorded – five from Davao City, one from Davao del Oro, and one from Davao del Norte. Davao region has 811 deaths due to COVID-19, 618 of whom are from Davao City.
There were 80 recoveries reported in the region, bringing the total number of recoveries to 16,983 – 50 are from Davao City, 13 from Davao del Norte, nine from Davao Oriental, five from Davao Oriental, and three from Davao del Sur.