ILOILO City – The governor of Isabela province asked Mayor Jerry Treñas for vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
In his letter dated March 1, Gov. Rodolfo Albano III requested for 20,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines, preferable those with expiry date of April 2022.
According to the governor, the provincial government of Isabela plans to ramp up its vaccination efforts.
“Your vaccine donation is very timely as our health workers from various LGUs (local government units) will go from house to house, even to the most remote barangays, to get the inoculation done, especially to our senior citizens and PWDs (persons with disablities),” Albano wrote.
Isabela is the country’s second largest province. It targets to inoculate 1,257,227 adult Isabeleños or 80 percent of the province’s 1.6 million population.
Albano noted that as of Feb. 28, 2022, 4.9 percent of Isabela’s eligible adults were still unvaccinated against COVID-19.
Also, only 10 of 36 LGUs were able to achieve at least 80 percent vaccination rate.
Meanwhile, Iloilo City has fully vaccinated 472, 032 individuals or 122.14 percent of its target population based on the Feb. 28, 2022 data of the DOH’s Regional Vaccination Operations Center.
It can be noted that Iloilo City previously donated COVID-19 vaccines to other local government units in Western Visayas apart from opening the city’s vaccination sites to non-residents of the city./PN
