ANTIQUE – The provincial government hopes to vaccinate by December 216,226 Antiqueños against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to Gov. Rhodora Cadiao.
The figure represents 50 percent of the province’s 432,452 target population for vaccination.
As of Sept. 19, 76,540 Antiqueños have so far been fully vaccinated, representing 18 percent of the target population.
Cadiao thus welcomed the new supplies of vaccines from the Department of Health (DOH) delivered just this Sept. 28.
These vaccines were the following:
* Pfizer – 2,925 doses
* Gamaleya Sputnik V – 1,900 doses
* Sinovac – 4,000
Here’s the breakdown of the fully vaccinated Antiqueños per municipality:
* Anini-y (3,027)
* Barbaza (3,427)
* Belison (1,145)
* Bugasong (2,471)
* Caluya (3,987)
* Culasi (5,314)
* Hamtic (3,793)
* Laua-an (2,607)
* Libertad (2,484)
* Pandan (10,985)
* Patnongon (2,833)
* San Jose (15,101)
* San Remigio (2,378)
* Sebaste (4,579)
* Sibalom (4,024)
* Tibiao (2,137)
* Tobias Fornier (4,538)
* Valderrama (1,707)
The vaccinated people were healthcare workers, senior citizens, persons with comorbidities and economic frontliners.
Cadiao urged Antiqueños to have themselves inoculated.
“Duro run dya ang vaccines naton nga nabaton from the national government,” said the governor.
As of Sept. 28, Antique had 382 active COVID-19 cases, 5,139 cases that recovered and 269 cases that died./PN
