Manila Bulletin
Nearly one million Central Visayans receive first dose of booster shots – DOH 7
The Department of Health (DOH) aims to administer 3.6 million more COVID-19 first booster shots by October 8 to meet the PinasLakas campaign target of inoculating 30% of the eligible population within the first 100 days of the Marcos administration.
As of October 3, approximately 993,779 individuals in Central Visayas have received their first booster shots, representing 36.8% of the DOH 7's target.
The DOH 7 still needs to administer over one million more first booster shots to achieve its target of 2.7 million doses.
The PinasLakas campaign has successfully vaccinated over 42,000 senior citizens with their primary vaccine series.
Currently, 78.5% of the eligible senior citizen population, which is about 6.8 million individuals, are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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