DAGUPAN CITY —- This city has the highest number of medical frontliners vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) among the local governments in the Ilocos region.
Mayor Brian Lim said on April 12 that 6,326 of 7,399 medical frontliners in the city had been given the first dose of either Sinovac or AstraZeneca.
A total of 1,325 had been given the second dose.
The number represents 85.5 percent of all the medical frontliners listed in the city’s private and public hospitals, birthing homes, and other medical establishments.
Lim had asked for additional doses from Val Lopez, regional director of the Department of Health (DOH), as the remaining 1,000 vials of Sinov…
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