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SunStar File April 15, 2021 THE Department of Health (DOH) 7 still doesn’t have enough vaccines for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) to start inoculating senior citizens, the next sector on the government’s priority list. Its available stock is only for medical frontliners.
The DOH 7 issued the clarification after senior citizens showed up at a mass inoculation in one of Cebu City’s commercial malls on Thursday, April 15, 2021, expecting to be vaccinated only to be refused.
Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, DOH 7 spokesperson, said that as of Thursday, they only had 178,560 doses of Sinovac available, 44,400 of which arrived in Cebu on Wednesday, April 14.