Nearly all medical frontliners in Dagupan get jabs vs COVID-19

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DAGUPAN CITY —- Almost 100 percent of the medical frontliners in this city had been inoculated against COVID-19, data from the city health office (CHO) showed.

A total of 6,996 (or 94.5 percent) 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.

The mayor said the city government had received 1,500 more doses of Coronavac, made by Chinese …

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