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Edwin Fernandez
COTABATO CITY – The Department of Health in Region 12 (Soccsksargen) is aiming to vaccinate more than 1.2 million unvaccinated residents of the region, including this city, during the three-day "Bayanihan, Bakunahan” vaccination drive next week.
Dr. Aristides Concepcion-Tan, DOH-12 director, told a news conference here Monday that the third massive vaccination rollout will be held from January 24-26, 2022.
“We are soliciting again your support in this program as part of the strategy ‘laban sa pandemya’ and hopefully we can reach this target,” Dr. Tan told reporters during a news conference at DOH-12 regional office in this city.
He said the third vaccination rollout is timely since the number of Covid-19 infections has started to spike the past few days.
He said DOH-12 aims to administer anti-Covid-19 vaccine jabs to a total of 1,220,139 unvaccinated persons across the region.
The event is targeting to inoculate 406,713 vaccinees daily during the massive vaccination rollout.
For North Cotabato, DOH-12 eyes to vaccination 452,549 individuals, South Cotabato (200,091), Sultan Kudarat (209,045), Sarangani (190,060), Gen. Santos City (77,938) and Cotabato City (90,456).
The daily targets per area are as follows: North Cotabato - 150,850; South Cotabato - 66,697; Sultan Kudarat - 69,682; Sarangani - 63,353; General Santos City - 25,979; and Cotabato City - 30,152.
As of today, Region 12 has a total of 58,061 cumulative confirmed Covid-19 cases with 872 (1.50 percent) actives cases, 54,853 (94.47 percent) recoveries, and 2,317 (3.99 percent) Covid-19 related deaths.
On Sunday, DOH-12 listed 131 new cases, the second-highest this year after the 165 new infections on January 14.
South Cotabato remained to have the highest number of infections at 18,712 with 17,769 recoveries, 205 active, 735 Covid-19 related deaths. (PNA)
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