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We're getting there! Enough vaccines to fully inoculate over half of 11K Boracay tourism workers, says Puyat
More than half of the 11,620 tourism workers on Boracay Island will soon be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat announced the arrival of an additional 10,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines for the island's workers.
Of these new doses, 3,000 will be used as second doses for 3,000 workers who received their initial vaccination in early July.
The remaining 7,000 doses will be administered as first and second doses for an additional 3,500 tourism workers, bringing the total number of fully inoculated workers to 6,500.
Puyat expressed happiness that tourism workers are getting vaccinated, allowing them to confidently return to their livelihoods.
The DOT's ultimate goal is to vaccinate all 11,620 tourism workers on Boracay.
The vaccination program is a collaborative effort between the DOT, the national government's COVID-19 Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), and the local government of Malay town in Aklan.
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