THE Cebu City Government started injecting medical frontliners with the second dose of the two-dose Sinovac vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) at the Robinsons Galleria and the University of Cebu Banilad campus on Monday, May 10, 2021.
Dr. Jeffrey Ibones, officer-in-charge of the City Health Department, said close to 800 health care workers showed up to complete their vaccination.
He said the inoculation of senior citizens and persons with comorbidities, or those belonging to the A2 and A3 priority groups, respectively, has been suspended while the City awaits the next delivery of vaccines from the Department of Health 7.
Almost all of the more than 9,000 Sinovac vaccines allocated to the City the other week were used up last week. There was enough left to inject more than 100 senior citizens and persons with comorbidities with the first dose of the vaccine on Monday.
Once the next batch of vaccines, Ibones said they will continue vaccinating senior citizens and persons with comorbidities.
“Second dose una ta until Wednesday pero og maabtan ta og vaccine sugod napud ta inig Wednesday pero hangtod nga wa pay laing vaccine moabot from DOH, second dose una ta,” he said.
(We will only be injecting the second dose until Wednesday, May 12, but if the next delivery arrives before then, we can resume injecting the first dose to those in A2 and A3 priority groups.)
According to Ibones, more than 30,000 individuals have been vaccinated in Cebu City. (PAC / PJB)