Olongapo City continues to vaccinate eligible residents on the priority list. (Photo courtesy of the Olongapo City Information Center)
OLONGAPO CITY––At least 1,170 residents here got their second dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, the city information center said.
The latest vaccine recipients pushed the number of fully inoculated residents in the city to about 16,000.
An interval of one to three months has been recommended for the two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine made by British-Swede pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca.
Over 15 million doses of the AstraZeneca are expected to be received by the country until 2022 through the COVAX Facility that aims to ensure equitable access to limited anti-COVID shots.
The city has been administering AstraZeneca, Sinovac, and the single-shot Janssen vaccine of Johnson & Johnson to eligible city residents.
Olongapo aims to vaccinate 70 percent of its 260,000-population to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19. INQ
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