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CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) will conduct a three-day house-to-house immunization campaign across Cebu province’s towns and component cities, focusing on older residents.

Apart from the unvaccinated elderly, Dr. Jaime Bernadas, DOH-7 regional director, noted in a press conference on Monday that the enhanced campaign against coronavirus disease (Covid-19) also targets youngsters and individuals with comorbidities.

“To everyone, take advantage of this privilege, these commodities provided by our government… which has made a significant investment in vaccines to be distributed to the public for free.” Bernadas stated, “We will have to reach the target that we have set for ourselves, which is at least 70% of the general population.”

He stated that some areas remain unvaccinated, necessitating the launch of three-day regional immunization efforts, with an emphasis on Cebu province’s municipalities and component cities, as a “last-ditch effort to eliminate, if not vanquish, coronavirus disease 2019.”

According to data, Central Visayas has vaccinated 62.8 percent of the entire eligible population, according to Dr. Van Philip Baton, DOH-7 regional medical coordinator for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases.

Only this city and Lapu-Lapu City have met the required inoculation coverage for both the general population and the A2 category or senior citizens for a locality to transition to an Alert Level 1 status, according to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID).

The IATF is still validating the corrected records of Lapu-Lapu City after it appealed for a lower alert status during the National Task Force against Covid-19 roadshow here on March 18. Cebu City is now under Alert Level 1, but the IATF is still validating the corrected records of Lapu-Lapu City after it appealed for a lowered alert status during the National Task Force against Covid-19 roadshow here on March 18.

Cebu has the lowest vaccination coverage among the Central Visayas provinces, at 40%, compared to 45 percent in Negros Oriental, 50 percent in Bohol, and 88 percent in Siquijor.

“Even if the majority of the working-class population is vaccinated, there is still a risk that our senior citizens will fall behind. It (does) have an effect on mortality rates. According to the most recent data from the media, Hong Kong has the greatest per capita mortality among the countries experiencing spikes. “We don’t want it to happen here,” Baton stated emphatically.

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