COVID-19

Calabarzon gets 7,000 vaccines for health care workers

Tina Ganzon-Ozaeta

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Calabarzon gets 7,000 vaccines for health care workers

Department of Health Assistant Secretary Maria Francia M. Laxamana administers the ceremonial Sinovac jabs to medical frontliners of the Antipolo City Hospital System during the start of the "Resbakuna, Kasangga ng BIDA” anti-Covid-19 vaccination roll-out for frontliners on March 4, 2021

Courtesy of DOH-Calabarzon

Medical frontliners in 13 hospitals in the region to get first jabs

The Department of Health (DOH) – Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, Batangas, Quezon) began vaccinating Thursday its medical frontliners against the COVID-19 virus starting with the staff of Antipolo City Hospital System Annex II in Antipolo City.

According to DOH 4A Regional Director Eduardo Janairo, a total of 7,190 CoronaVac vaccines were allocated for medical frontliners of 13 hospitals located in various provinces of the region.

CoronaVac is the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech.

Here was how the vaccines were distributed: Rizal Provincial Hospital System – Antipolo Annex II with an allocation of 280 vaccines; followed by Batangas Medical Center with 1,011; Batangas Provincial Hospital with 184 vaccines; Ospital ng Lipa with 229; General Emilio Aguinaldo Memorial Hospital – 900; Ospital ng Imus – 294; De La Salle University Medical Center – 1,529; Laguna Provincial Hospital and San Pablo District Hospital – 334; Laguna Medical Center – 415; Dr Jose P. Rizal Memorial District Hospital – 318; Quezon Medical Center – 1,461; Maria L. Eleazar General Hospital – 71; and Claro M. Recto Memorial District Hospital with 154 vaccines.

“I encourage our medical frontliners in the region to avail of the vaccine against COVID-19. We have to protect ourselves against the virus. This is not only for us but to our family as well. Pag protektado tayo, protektado rin ang ating pamilya,” Janairo said.

Aside from Janairo, also attending the COVID-19 vaccination rollout ceremony were Secretary Vivencio B. Dizon, Deputy Chief Implementer and Testing Czar; DOH Assistant Secretary Maria Francia M. Laxamana; Department of Interior and Local Government Assistant Secretary Manuel B. Felix; and Mayor Andrea Bautista-Ynares.

Dizon said that the government was doing its best to procure more vaccines as the number of people who wanted to be vaccinated has increased.

“We will have adequate supply of vaccines as they are still arriving so there’s no need to worry because there’s more to come,” he said.

The first batch of 600,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines donated by China arrived in the country on February 28. Sinovac was granted emergency approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on February 22. – Rappler.com

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