DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental, Jan. 19 (PIA) -- Negros Oriental has logged 41.3% accomplishment in its Covid-19 vaccination roll out as of Jan. 18.
Assistant Provincial Health Officer and Provincial IATF Incident Ground Commander Dr. Liland Estacion announced this in her virtual press conference on Jan. 18, noting that the number of fully vaccinated individuals in the province has reached 409,509.
Individuals who are fully vaccinated under the A1 category is now at 29,683; 47,776 for A2; 55,080 for A3; 125,316 for A4; and 67,721 for A5.
There are 51,062 individuals who are fully vaccinated under the Rest of Adult Population (ROAP) and 32,868 persons fully vaccinated under the Rest of Pediatric Population (ROPP).
“Naa may 13 percent waiting for the second dose. Kung kani sila fully vaccinated na naa na ta sa over 50 percent (of the target) (There are still 13 percent of individuals waiting for their second dose. Once these people are completely vaccinated then we will be over 50 percent of our taget),” Estacion said.
Negros Oriental is targeting 990,637 persons for its vaccination drive.
As of Jan. 18, there are 541,374 individuals who have already taken their first dose of the vaccine.
The province has received a total of 1,046,856 vaccine allocation from the National and Regional Vaccination Operation Centers (N/RVOC) since the start of its vaccination program.
The figure does not include the allocation that was directly given to Local Government Units (LGUs) that were not reported to the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) for their inventory.
Estacion said the IPHO continues to set aside allocations for every LGU in the province, and called on the vaccination coordinators in the cities and municipalities to pick up their allocations at the IPHO.
