Mass vaccination against COVID-19 resumes in Olongapo City
A resident in Olongapo City gets inoculated against COVID-19 during a recent mass vaccination at the SMX Convention Center of SM Olongapo Central. (Photo courtesy of Olongapo City Information Center)
OLONGAPO CITY—The local government continued on Wednesday, July 21, its mass vaccination against COVID-19, administering another batch of the first doses of AstraZeneca, officials said.
At least 600 mostly priority residents received their first jabs of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced in the U.K.
In a statement, Mayor Rolen Paulino Jr. said about 22,000 residents had been inoculated against COVID-19 since the city began its vaccine rollout.
But only about 11,000 of them had received their second dose due to the limited supply of vaccines.
Aside from AstraZeneca, the city has been administering the Coronavac vaccine made by the Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac.
Olongapo has to inoculate 70 percent of its 260,000-population to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19.
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