Published April 8, 2021, 4:47 PM
DAVAO CITY – The Vaccination Cluster here has started giving the second dose of the anti-COVID vaccine to medical frontliners who were inoculated with Sinovac’s CoronaVac last month.
“These are the frontliners who were vaccinated March 8 onwards at the Mabini Elementary School last month,” said Vaccination Cluster head Dr. Josephine Villafuerte in a statement Wednesday.
Villafuerte said 4,557 private healthcare workers will receive the second dose of Sinovac vaccine from April 7 to April 13.
The medical healthcare workers receiving the second dose of the anti-COVID vaccine include those from the Davao Doctor’s Hospital (DDH), San Pedro Hospital (SPH), Brokenshire Hospital, Metro Davao Medical and Research Center (MDMRC), Davao Medical School Foundation (DMSF), Limso Hospital, Davao Adventist Hospital, Holy Spirit Community Hospital, Davao One World Diagnostic Center, the City Health Office (CHO), and infirmaries and private clinics.
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Photo by Mark Perandos March 12, 2021 THE Davao City Government targets to complete the inoculation of the 2,400 healthcare workers from private hospitals on Sunday, March 14, 2021.
Of this number, around 85 percent of them have already received the anti-Covid vaccine as of March 11.
Since the Covid-19 vaccination rollout for private hospitals on Monday, March 8, around 2,028 were inoculated with the Sinovac vaccine. The number is about 85 percent of the targeted 2,400 healthcare workers from private hospitals to receive the shots.
Davao City Covid-19 Vaccine Cluster head Dr. Josephine Villafuerte said that vaccination to all private hospital workers will be completed on Sunday. We have started the vaccination of tertiary hospitals last Monday while the level two hospitals and the other healthcare facilities like infirmaries, small stand-alone clinics, started on Wednesday, Villafuerte said.
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