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A three-day ‘wall to wall’ inventory of vaccines administered by Cagayan de Oro City and local governments in northern Mindanao is ongoing before their vaccination resumes on Saturday this week, more than a year after the nationwide launching of the government’s vaccination drive.

“The ‘wall-to-wall’ inventory conducted by the Department of Health covers many aspects like the expiry period of vaccines, how many were used, the temperature maintained for some vaccines, etc. and on whether the local governments were able to fully administer the vaccines allocated to them by the government on schedule and on the intended number of recipients,” said City Health Office (CHO) medical officer Dr. Ted Yu Jr. during Wednesday afternoon’s City Hall press briefing.

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As such the monitoring and assessment of the vaccination campaigns of local governments in northern Mindanao covers not just supplies but on whether or not the local governments met their respective vaccination targets, Dr. Yu explained.

As of March 22, Cagayan de Oro City Hall administered second dose vaccines to 545,791 city residents or 90 percent while it administered booster shots to 113,289 or about 21 percent.

Cagayan de Oro City’s vaccination target is pegged at 599,929 by the DOH. For children aged five to 11 years old, City Hall managed to administer the first dose of vaccines to 14,203 children as of March 22. About 392 received their first dose and 30 received their second dose on March 22. About 4,859 kids received their second dose as of March 22, Dr. Yu said.

“As of now, there’s a freeze in the vaccination campaign and we’ll provide the public with more data after the inventory is finished,” Dr. Yu said.

Dr. Yu said they will update data on the number of outsiders who got vaccinated In Cagayan de Oro City and those who were vaccinated by City Hall’s mobile vaccination teams that were deployed in select local governments in Misamis Oriental.

“Our teams will validate the number of vaccine recipients (who got vaccinated in the city for confirmation by their respective local governments) and hopefully, we can finish this by next week,” Dr. Yu said.

Based on their latest data, Dr. Yu said the city vaccinated more than 4,000 non-city residents in the city’s designated vaccination sites and 3,000 non-Cagayan de Oro residents in four Misamis Oriental towns that sought assistance from City Hall.

“As we can see, vaccination is critical in reducing the number of Covid-19 patients and deaths caused by the virus,” Dr. Yu said. (Stephen Capillas of City Information Office)

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