A total of 1,717 healthcare workers in the City of San Fernando completed their COVID-19 jab.
The City Health Office (CHO) received about 1,231 doses of Sinovac and 940 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the national government.
CHO Officer-in-Charge Carlos Mercado said the city government has finished immunizing its Priority Group A1 which includes the frontline health workers of private and public hospitals, health and non-health professionals, isolation facility workers, barangay health workers, and barangay health emergency response teams.
Next-in-line vaccinees are the Priority Group A2 or the senior citizens.
“There is still no exact date but the vaccination will definitely be this week because there is already a notice from the Department of Health (DOH) to pick up the vaccines,” he announced.
CHO disclosed that 1,700 doses of Sinovac will be initially provided to the city, as the DOH already raised a green light on the vaccination of the said brand to the senior citizens.
In addition, Mercado noted that the city has recorded approximately 44, 000 senior citizen vaccine registrants.
“We have a huge population of senior citizens in our master list, and many are still registering. We have to finish vaccinating the A2 first, before we could start with the A3 so it will take a long time,” he said.
He reported that with 250 to 300 vaccines administered per day, the vaccination would take a month.
Meanwhile, Mercado reiterated that no walk-in vaccinations are performed to prevent the crowding of the vaccination centers.
“During vaccination, we still follow the minimum health protocols. Also, we adhere to the schedules. Those who are scheduled [to be vaccinated] are called by our staff the day before their schedules, and if they do not have mobile phones, the barangay health workers will visit their houses to update,” he narrated.
The city’s Priority Group A3 are adults 18-59 years old with comorbidities followed by Priority Group A4 which covers those working in essential sectors both public and private.