Over 5,200 healthcare workers get COVID-19 jabs in Bicol
LEGAZPI CITY –– At least 5,206 healthcare workers in Bicol have been inoculated with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines distributed by the Department of Health (DOH).
Noemi Bron, DOH Bicol public affairs chief, on Wednesday, quoting a DOH vaccine tracker report dated March 15, said the agency received 13,200 single-dose vials of the China-made Sinovac vaccine and 22,000 doses of the British-made AstraZeneca.
As of March 15, the vaccine tracker said 60 percent or 5,206 of the targeted 8,691 healthcare workers in Bicol had been vaccinated in various hospitals across the region.
The Albay vaccination program posted a 65-percent target vaccination rate with 2,206 healthcare workers.
In Camarines Sur, 1,768 or 51 percent of medical frontliners have been inoculated, while 493 or 72 percent have been vaccinated in Catanduanes. In Sorsogon, 739 or 49 percent got the jabs.
Receivers of the vaccine rollout were healthcare workers at the Bicol Regional Training and Teaching Hospital in this city, nine other hospitals, and two medical facilities.
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