A woman gets vaccinated against COVID-19 in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga province. (Photo from the City of San Fernando information office)
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga—Some 40,749 of San Fernando’s 242,102 adult population have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, said the city government on Monday, July 5.
Those vaccinated comprise 16.8 percent of the city’s qualified residents. The city has an estimated population of 345,860.
The city government said the residents who received the first vaccine dose include 3,187 health workers under the A1 priority group; 16,871 elderly (A2); 10,543 with comorbidities (A3), and 10,148 frontline personnel in essential sectors (A4).
Those fully vaccinated were 2,026 health workers and 3,705 elderly, which comprise about 2.4 percent of the adult population in this city.
The City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit here said it received 11,052 AstraZeneca vaccines, 35,878 Sinovac, and 5,850 Pfizer vaccines from the Department of Health.
As of July 3, only 6,041 doses of Sinovac remained available in the city.