CEBU, Philippines — Cebu City residents who belong to the A3 priority group for the COVID-19 vaccination rollout are now urged to register themselves online.
Those under the A3 priority are the persons with comorbidities.
Councilor David Tumulak made the announcement encouraging the individuals under A3 who are willing to be vaccinated.
“We will announce properly when,” said Tumulak.
Examples of conditions under priority group A3 are chronic respiratory disease and infection, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, immunodeficiency state, among others.
They can register at https://mics.cebucity.gov.ph/vims/page/register or https://www.PaBakunaTa.com.
To recall, City Health officer-in-charge Jeffrey Ibones said that online registration is important to be included in the vaccine allocation from the Department of Health.
He explained that vaccine allocation from the national government is based on the number of individuals who registered online.
After receiving 9,000 doses of Sinovac last Friday, the Cebu City government resumed yesterday its vaccination rollout for senior citizens.
The vaccination was held in the city’s vaccination sites in UC-Banilad, Robinsons Galleria, and SM Seaside.
Based on the City Health Department’s masterlist, almost 30,000 senior have already registered online.
Meanwhile, Ibones said the city will start to administer the second dose of Sinovac tomorrow.
For the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccine, Ibones said it will be another schedule since its interval varies from the Sinovac.
According to the DOH, the interval of doses varies per vaccine. For those currently available, Sinovac is taken four weeks (28 days) apart, while AstraZeneca is taken four to 12 weeks apart.
Distribution
Meanwhile, the DOH-7 has started distributing the 56,400 doses of Sinovac that it received on April 30, 2021.
DOH-7 spokesperson and chief pathologist, Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, during the daily briefing yesterday on the vaccination rollout in Central Visayas said that 12,000 doses go for Cebu; 8,000 doses for Bohol; 4,000 doses for Negros Oriental and 1,000 doses for Siquijor.
Also, Cebu City was given 18,000 doses; 2,000 doses for Lapu-Lapu City, and 2,000 doses for Mandaue City.
Camp Lapu-Lapu was also given 600 doses; 1,000 doses for Centers for Health Disease Isolation Facility, 200 doses for the Department of Labor and Employment; 6,600 for Project Balik Buhay, and 500 doses for Philhealth frontliners.
Loreche said 500 doses remained as buffer stock as Central Visayas has received a total of 234,960 doses and 234,460 doses were already distributed.
Both the cities of Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu will resume their vaccination today.
As of May 2, 2021, a total of 89,231 healthcare workers were vaccinated with the first dose of the 131,781 total eligible population of healthcare workers for vaccination
Also, of the 572,626 eligible senior citizens for vaccination, a total of 9,776 were inoculated for the first dose. — Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon, GMR (FREEMAN)