DUE to adjustments by the Department of Health (DOH), Cagayan de Oro City must hit an additional 70,000-second dose target to achieve the 574,491 target population for herd immunity this year, Mayor Oscar Moreno said yesterday.
“The 574,491 target includes those aged 12 years and old above. As of now our second dose recipients account for 505,082 or 87 percent. First dose recipients account for 552,589 or 96 percent and if we add an additional 40,000 first doses (we’ll be over that target). They will only wait for the second dose and our vaccination campaign remains ongoing,” Moreno said during Wednesday afternoon’s City Hall press briefing.
Moreno said this even as Cagayan de Oro City is experiencing a surge of Covid-19 cases which affected some of City Hall’s vaccinators.
“Due to data glitches to track data and some vaccinators got hit by the virus (we are compensating for it),” City Health Office (CHO) medical officer Dr. Ted Yu Jr. said.
During Tuesday’s vaccination, Dr. Yu said the city vaccinated over 3,000 of whom 1,114 received their first dose and 1,939 received their booster shots.
City Hall is also conducting outreach vaccination programs in Misamis Oriental on the rationale that a substantial number of Misamisnons work, shop, and do business in Cagayan de Oro City. In its latest outreach campaign, City Hall sent vaccinators to Gitagum town, one of five towns in Misamis Oriental province with the lowest vaccination rate.
“The other towns being Talisayan, Gingoog City and Opol town,” Dr. Yu said.
As of Jan. 26, the CHO said Cagayan de Oro City logged 232 new cases, 45 recoveries, and one death. More than 90 percent of the deaths involve unvaccinated persons with comorbidities.
Moreno earlier said while the surge to triple-digit cases broke out early in January, sustained compliance to health protocols and increasing vaccination rate may lower the cases to manageable levels in the next few weeks.
“Hopefully the cases will also go down in northern Mindanao…what’s important is to focus our attention not so much on the alert level but on our compliance to minimum public health standards and to get ourselves fully vaccinated, including our booster shots,” Moreno said. (Stephen Capillas of City Information Office)
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