Davao Region reaches 80% vaccination rate

DAVAO CITY, Jan. 18 (PIA) – The Davao Region has so far vaccinated 80.8% of the target herd immunity or at least 70% of its target population.

The Regional Vaccination Operation Center, in a meeting today, reported that 3,037,198 with at least one dose have been vaccinated. Said number is considered a significant reduction from the region’s target population of 5,371,254.

The Davao Region has also reached 70.1% of the target for individuals receiving the second dose.

So far, based on the same target population there are still 722,680 individuals who have yet to be vaccinated or 19.2% of the target population.

“ We thank all our partners, for helping us achieve this number of vaccinated individuals. However, we still have many unvaccinated in the region.

Davao City, which leads in the vaccine utilization region-wide, has already vaccinated 98.5% or 1,280,296 individuals for the first dose while 92.6% or 1,203,453 individuals with complete vaccination.

The City is still looking for the 19,598 unvaccinated.

Davao de Oro is also working out to find and vaccinate the 171,139 unvaccinated individuals; Davao del Norte is yet to vaccinate 155,429 individuals; Davao del Sur to vaccinate 175,514 individuals; Davao Occidental with 95,948 individuals; while Davao Oriental still has to vaccinate 105,061 individuals.

As of January 16, the region also reported the administration of 196,750 doses of booster shots for qualified individuals.

The RVOC emphasized that there are enough vaccines due for delivery and administration.

Current inventory of vaccines due for delivery are Sinovac, Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J.

The J&J vaccines are targeted to be administered on senior citizens and individuals residing in Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDAs) as it only requires one dose for full vaccination.

The government also intensifies its communication and demand generation activities to reach and convince the unvaccinated senior citizens and other members of the Priority A2.(PIA XI/FGMacapagat)

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