Lubuagan, Kalinga – Around 30.32 percent of the eligible population of Lubuagan has already done their part in the anti-COVID-19 vaccination program of the municipality. The Lubuagan Municipal Health Office (MHO) informed this, saying that the vaccination rate cumulatively recorded is from all the barangays.
MHO Public Health Nurse Novie Eder said these cover all those inoculated with Sinovac, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Janssen as provided by the Kalinga Provincial Health Office (PHO). As gathered from the PHO October 22 record, around 1,931 persons from the 70% or 6,368 priority individuals from categories A1-to-A5 were inoculated.
Said categories were set up by the National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG), a group of health experts advising the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to reduce mortality and to preserve the health system capacity of the country.
A1 are those frontline workers in health facilities both national and local, private and public, health professionals and non-professionals like students, nursing aides, janitors, barangay health workers, etc.; the A2 are senior citizens aged 60 years old and above; A3 are persons with comorbidities not otherwise included in the preceding categories; A4 are frontline personnel in essential sectors, including uniformed personnel and those in working sectors identified by the IATF as essential during ECQ; and A5 are those indigent populations not otherwise included in the preceding categories.
As of October 29, 2021, Lubuagan MHO's record presented by Public Health Associate Nurse Ceasar Manalwap shows that there are already 2,576 individuals who were administered the vaccines since the start of the inoculation last March 2021, meaning 573 eligible iLubuagen are now vaccinated for their first dose, while 2,003 individuals are now fully or double-vaccinated.
With this, Lubuagan Mayor Charisma Anne Dickpus said the MHO is doing their best to encourage iLubuagens to be vaccinated against the coronavirus disease.
“Dagitoy taga MHO tayo, kanayon a makita tayo ti IEC (Information Education Campaign) da kadagiti babarangay… because the vaccine is a reward to our constituents. And at the same time, if not a sacrifice, this is an advantage and service to ourselves, our children, our ap-apo, our colleagues, and our municipality,” Dickpus said.
Mayor Dickpus emphasized that targeting for a hundred percent vaccination rate will mean preventing hard border control and the more easing of permission for iLubuagen to freely travel in and out of the municipality.
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