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+ February 22, 2021 Go, get your children vaccinated. This is the Department of Health (DOH) 7’s call to the public as its Measles Rubella and Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity (MR-OPV SIA) program is on its second phase that showed coverage way below the agency’s target.
As of Feb. 18, 2021, Cebu City logged the lowest coverage for measles rubella SIA at 39.28 percent, or 34,533 were vaccinated out of the 87,921 targeted children. The same thing can be said of the polio jab rollout, which is only at 39.29 percent, which means only 40,791 children were inoculated, out of the 103,819 target.
Cebu Province, meanwhile, is also still halfway, at 58.23 percent, or only 163,099 of the 280,080 target.