CITY OF TABUK, Kalinga(PIA) --The province’s Resbakuna program continues to push with the arrival of 15,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s  Janssen vaccines from the Department of Health-Cordillera Center for Health Development.

 This single-dose vaccine against COVID-19 will be administered to A2 (senior citizens) and A3 (persons with co-morbidity) priority groups in identified geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas.

Based on the DOH guidelines, the vaccines should be administered within six days upon delivery.  The Provincial Health Office (PHO) has already set the deployment of these vaccines to target areas in the province, and called a briefing of health personnel of  recipient LGUs.

For the province’s COVID-19 vaccination roll-out, the PHO reported 11,211 persons administered with first dose and 6,170 given full doses, as of July 21, 2021. They were inoculated with either Sinovac CoronaVac or Astra Zeneca vaccine. 

Kalinga has 41,484 eligible persons for vaccination under the priority A group.

As categorized by the National Immunization Technical Advisory Group, Priority A1 includes frontline workers in all health facilities, health professionals and non-professionals such as students, nursing aides, janitors and barangay health workers; A2- Senior citizens aged 60 years old and above; A3- persons with comorbidities; A4-frontline personnel in essential sectors including uniformed personnel; and A5- Indigent populations not otherwise included in the preceding categories. (JDP/LL-PIA CAR, Kalinga)