Bulacan reaches target herd immunity against COVID-19
CITY OF MALOLOS––The province of Bulacan has reached its target herd immunity against COVID-19 after vaccinating more than 2.2 million of its 3.7 million residents, authorities said Friday, April 22.
As of April 17, at least 5.2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the province, with 2,281,195 residents vaccinated fully while 2,418,385 inoculated with the first dose.
Dra. Hjordis Marushka Celis, Bulacan COVID-19 Task Force vice-chair, said 541,091 residents had received booster shots.
As of Friday, Bulacan’s active COVID-19 cases dropped to 62.
Since the pandemic struck in 2020, the province has registered
109,375 COVID-19 cases, with 107,636 recoveries and 1,677 deaths.
The province is on Alert Level 1, the least restrictive in the five-tier alert system in the country. INQ
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