THE DEPARTMENT of Health has ordered the local government to begin the vaccination of those under the A4 category in the mass inoculation program of the Duterte administration.
Some 5,000 doses of the Chinese Sinovac vaccines were allocated for the A4 category which includes economic frontliners and other government personnel, according to City Health Officer Dr. Dulce Amor Miravite.
“We received an advisory from the Department of Health that we can start vaccination for the A4 category,” she said, adding, as of July 9, only 21,161 or 3% of the city’s 700,000 target population have received two doses of their allocated vaccine.
Mayor Beng Climaco, who heads the local Covid-19 task force, has previously urged the DOH to include local essential workers and uniformed personnel under the A4 priority list in the mass vaccination program to protect them from the deadly Covid-19 disease.
Her request came after the national government’s Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) has begun inoculating those in the A4 category at the National Capital Region to help jumpstart the safe reopening of the economy.
In her request to the IATF-MEID, Climaco said: “Hinihiling po namin na masagawa na po ang pagbukas ng A4 priority category (sa Zamboanga).” And at the same, the mayor thanked President Rodrigo Duterte and members of the IATF-MEID for prioritizing Zamboanga City in the allocation of vaccines.
Climaco said the mass vaccination in Zamboanga City continues and urged residents to register online through - zambocovax.com – or to the nearest barangay health centers.
The IATF-MEID started its A4 vaccination in the Metropolitan Manila area, Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, Bulacan, Pampanga, Cebu province and Metro Davao, which includes the cities of Davao; Digos in Davao del Sur province; Tagum, Panabo and Samal in Davao del Norte province.
Those who were vaccinated were call center employees, travel guides, tricycle drivers, household staffs, SM Supermalls personnel, representatives from the entertainment sector, drivers, teachers, government workers, fast food crew workers, food delivery riders, and news reporters from the Malacanang Press Corps. (Claudine Uniana, Zamboanga Post)
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