The Dagupan City Astrodome serves as a non-hospital-based vaccination site. On Monday , Mayor Brian Lim announced that 6,996 out of the 7,399 medical frontliners in the city had been vaccinated against COVID-19. Photo by Willie Lomibao
DAGUPAN CITY –– Almost 100 percent of the medical frontliners in this city had been inoculated against COVID-19, data from the city health office showed. A total of 6,996 of the 7,399 medical frontliners had received the first dose, the CHO said. A total of 2,374 had their second dose.Mayor Brian Lim said a few health workers were still waiting for other vaccine brands, while others were hesitant about getting vaccinated.
“We can’t really have a 100-percent vaccination rate because of different reasons,” Lim said in a phone interview Monday, April 26.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)