Cebu City resumes vax drive with 21,000 Pfizer doses

Cebu City's vaccination drive resumed on Thursday after receiving a new supply of 21,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines from the Department of Health-Central Visayas (DOH 7).

The fresh vaccine supply allowed four vaccination centers to reopen after three were temporarily closed due to a shortage.

According to Dr. Jeffrey Ibones, officer-in-charge of the City Health Department, the Pfizer vaccines will be administered to individuals in priority categories A1 (medical front-liners), A2 (senior citizens), A3 (persons with comorbidities), and A5 (indigent population).

The A4 (essential workers) category will be skipped for this vaccine allocation as per guidelines from the COVAX facility.

Over 10,000 individuals in the A5 category have registered, and more than 200,000 residents have registered to be vaccinated overall.

As of the latest data, 54,000 residents have received their first dose, and 23,000 individuals in the A1, A2, and A3 groups have completed their two doses.