FILE A minor resident of La Union gets inoculated against COVID-19 during the recent pediatric vaccination drive. The province has achieved herd immunity against viral disease. (Photo courtesy La Union provincial government)
MANILA, Philippines — Some 71 percent of Department of Education (DepEd) teaching and non-teaching personnel, and 64 percent of students age 12 to 17 without comorbidities are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the agency’s officials reported on Friday.
DepEd Director for Bureau of Learner Support Services Lope Santos, in his presentation during an online briefing, said that there are a total of 970,694 teaching and non teaching personnel under the department.
Santos said that of the total number, 83.48 percent or 810,300 have received vaccines, of whom, 689,176 or 71 percent are fully inoculated while 12.48 percent only received their first dose.
On the other hand, 18.74 percent or 181,932 have not been vaccinated yet.
Santos, however, noted that the DepEd data indicated that adding the total number of vaccinated and unvaccinated personnel will yield at 102.65 percent.
“Discrepancies have been observed in the submitted data,” Santos said in his presentation.
Possible reasons for the discrepancy could be that the total eligible population have not been updated based on the actual number of personnel who reported their vaccination status, and even possible double reporting, according to Santos.
Vaccination status of 12-17 year-old students
DepEd chief of School Health Division Maria Corazon Dumlao, in a separate presentation, said that 76 percent of 11,465,786 of 12-17 years old students without comorbidities have received COVID-19 vaccines.
Of that total, 7,342,978 or 64 percent are fully vaccinated while 1,393,736 or 12.16 percent have only received a single vaccine shot, according to Dumlao.
Meanwhile, Dumlao said that out of 1,273,976 of 12-17 years old with comorbidities, only 23.33 percent or 297,191 have received vaccines — 205,234 are fully vaccinated while 91,957 only received their first dose.
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