Some 77,229 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived here on Friday, bringing the total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses delivered so far in Davao Region to 4,418,870.
Senator and Chair of the Senate Committee on Health Christopher “Bong” Go praised the Duterte Administration for its accelerated rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines saying that if such gains are sustained and expanded further together with consistent enforcement of health protocols, the country will soon reach population protection towards herd immunity and gradual return to normalcy soon.
The Provincial Health Office (PHO) started on Wednesday the vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the Bulacan Provincial Jail.
An official of the National Task Force Against Covid-19 (NTF) on Monday (Oct. 11) urged local government units to increase their Covid-19 vaccination numbers to achieve 80% population protection soon.
Dr. Drew Camposano from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society of the Philippines (PIDSP) on Monday (Oct. 11) said pediatric vaccination for COVID-19 will begin with 15 to 17-year-olds with comorbidities.
