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ILOILO CITY — To boost the
rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, the
Iloilo City government has brought
its inoculation program to the
barangay level.
Vaccinators were deployed in nine
of the city’s 180 barangays where
they vaccinated residents in village
centers or homes, especially the
elderly and those with accessibility
difficulties.
“Today our vaccination team was
deployed to the barangays for us to
make sure that we can
vaccinate who wants to be
vaccinated. Because of the new
variants which are more infectious
we need to vaccinate more Ilonggos
especially our remaining senior
citizens and immunocompromised,”
Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas said
in a statement.
The house-to-house inoculation
targets 7,200 doses daily. The nine
villages included San Isidro,
Balabago, Baldoza, Santo Rosario,
Estanzuela, Bakhaw, Boulevard,
Calaparan and Barrio Obrero.
These are among the barangays
with the biggest population and
other barangays will be targeted
next week.
Since the roll-out of vaccines
began, vaccinations have been
conducted in seven centers in the
city.
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The city aims to vaccinate 525,000
residents and non-residents who are
working in the city to achieve herd
immunity.
Those fully vaccinated reached
143,043 or 27.25 percent of the
target population as of August 28.
Another 123,041 have received the
first dose for those requiring two
doses.
The Department of Health (DOH)
in Western Visayas reported that
833,860 residents have been fully
vaccinated as of August 29
comprising 14.95 percent of the
target population.
Most provinces in the region are
struggling against a surge of cases.
The DOH regional office reported
on Monday that the region is
categorized as “high risk” in terms
of reported cases.
The provinces of Guimaras, Iloilo
and the cities of Iloilo and Bacolod
are also at high risk as well as some
towns.
The provinces of Aklan, Capiz and
Negros Occidental are categorized
as “moderate risk.”
On Sunday, 906 new cases were
reported in the region bringing the
total to 103,260 cases.
These include 12,163 cases and
2,437 deaths.
From August 13 to 26 alone, 8,968
new cases were recorded with the
highest in Iloilo province (3,841),
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