DUMAGUETE CITY— At least 3,444 health care workers in Negros Oriental have already been injected with coronavirus vaccines from two manufacturers—China’s Sinovac and UK’s AstraZeneca.
According to Dr. Maria Sarah Talla, city health officer, the city government was planning to inject vaccines into at least 100,000 residents.
Of these, some 23,000 were senior citizens who were expected to get injected in the second quarter of 2021.
As of Wednesday (March 24), vaccines are being distributed to health workers from city and municipal health offices, rural health units and community hospitals.
At least 90 out of 150 health workers from th…
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