TACLOBAN CITY —- More than 22,000 medical health workers from Eastern Visayas have received their first doses of anti-COVID vaccines.
The majority of the health workers, who received the vaccine, are from Tacloban, where 5,264 have been inoculated.
Jelyn Malibago, Department of Health (DOH) information officer in the region, said some health workers have yet to receive the vaccine.
In Leyte, 11,175 health care workers have received the vaccine, followed by Eastern Samar (3,301); Northern Samar (2,762); Samar (2,406); Southern Leyte (1,623); and Biliran (753).
The region has received 42,050 doses, 28,050 of them from Sinovac and 14,000 from AstraZeneca), Malibago said.
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