File photo CEBU CITY - Vaccination for children aged five to 11 will be far safer as practitioners who are experts on pediatric medicine infused additional parameters, thus enhancing the existing guidelines, a health official said on Tuesday. Department of Health (DOH)-Central Visayas chief pathologist, Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, said they have just concluded a series of meetings with the Cebu chapter members of the Philippine Pediatric Society on the enhanced guidelines. "They have provided guidelines -a better enhancement of the general guidelines. We are glad as we really thanked and congratulated our pediatricians who are very much actively involved in the vaccination drive for the five to 11," Loreche said in a Visayas Vaccination Operations Center (VVOC) presser. As vaccine doses intended for the children aged five to 11 are yet to arrive here, Loreche said the Central Visayas region is preparing for the rollout. The vaccine doses for this youngest age group eligible for in
With still over 800 thousand unvaccinated eligible population, Cebu Province has the highest target of vaccinees for the 3rd National Vaccination Days on February 10 to 11 among all the provinces in Central Visayas.
The mobile vaccination drive for transport groups and commuters kicks off today at the Malasakit Lounge of Land Transportation Office-7 on N. Bacalso, Cebu City while the pilot implementation of the 5-11-year-old vaccination also unfolds in some areas of Luzon today.
The nationwide rollout for 5 to 11 years old is slated for February 14, while the pilot implementation for this age group will finally begin this Monday in the National Capital Region with the arrival of the first batch of the reformulated Pfizer BioNTech vaccines.