Ligao City ramps up COVID-19 jab activities for elderlies | Inquirer News

Ligao City ramps up COVID-19 jab activities for elderlies

By: - Correspondent / @mbjaucianINQ
/ 11:49 PM September 01, 2022

COVID-19 vaccination for  senior citizens in Ligao City, Albay. Image from Ligao City Health Office / Facebook; elderly

COVID-19 vaccination for senior citizens in Ligao City, Albay. Image from Ligao City Health Office / Facebook

LIGAO CITY, Albay — In order to protect elderlies from COVID-19, this city’s government officials and health care workers have met the various senior citizens’ organizations on Thursday, September 1, to encourage them to get vaccinated soon.

Ligao City Mayor Fernando Gonzalez, a senior citizen himself at 82, just got his second booster shot last Sunday, August 28.

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Gonzalez encouraged the elders to get vaccinated and strictly follow the minimum health protocols to protect themselves from COVID-19.

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He also ordered the mobilization of vaccination activities including the house-to-house inoculation by health workers.

Schools, cockpits, terminals, market, food chains and restaurants, malls and other business establishments are also visited by health workers in Ligao City to ramp up their COVID-19 vaccination program.

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Based on data on vaccination coverage of the Department of Health’s PinasLakas, the inoculation for senior citizens in Ligao City has already reached to 82.2 percent or 6,947 of the total number of elderlies (8,963) in the city, Hilda Pacheco Lope, a nurse at the City Health Office told Inquirer in a text message Thursday.

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