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Published May 25, 2021, 9:19 PM
CEBU CITY The move not to disclose what COVID-19 vaccine brands are available in vaccination sites has not affected the city’s inoculation drive.
Dr. Jeffrey Ibones, Cebu City Health Officer said more people, including medical frontliners, senior citizens and individuals with comorbidities, continued to troop to vaccination centers even it was decided that the COVID-19 brand will only be revealed during the actual vaccination.
“We’re happy that there are still a lot of residents signing up and lining at our vaccination centers despite the nondisclosure. We’re hoping this will continue in the coming days,” said Ibones.
Published April 19, 2021, 5:09 PM
CEBU CITY – The city health department here started its vaccination rollout for senior citizens Monday.
Loida and Richard Fourteau hug each other after receiving their first dose of Sinovac Vaccine for their protection against Covid-19 in the University of Cebu on April 19, 2021. Vaccinations for senior citizens started yesterday from Barangay Mambaling and Mabolo Cebu City. (Photo by Juan Carlo de Vela / MANILA BULLETIN)
The vaccination was conducted at Robinsons Galleria mall and University of Cebu-Banilad campus, said Dr. Jeffrey Ibones, chief of the Cebu City Health Department.
Those who received the COVID-19 vaccines were part of the 88,000 senior citizens who were eligible to be inoculated based on the masterlist of the Department of Health-Central Vsiayas (DOH Region 7).
Published April 6, 2021, 4:52 PM
CEBU CITY – Some 50 medical workers from Cebu will reinforce the government’s COVID-19 response in Metro Manila.
A send-off ceremony will be held Wednesday for the 11 doctors, 35 nurses, and four medical technologists from Cebu, Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, spokesperson of the Department of Health-Central Visayas (DOH Region 7), said in a press briefing Tuesday.
The team will depart at 3 p.m. or a few hours after the send-off ceremony that will be attended by key local officials.
The healthcare workers set to leave for Manila are from Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center and Cebu City Health Department.
Loreche said the DOH Region 7 has been hiring medical workers who will be sent to the National Capital Region (NCR) that has been experiencing a steady rise of COVID-18 cases.