Over 90,000 Ilocos residents get vax vs COVID-19 on 1st day of nat’l vaccination drive

Local residents troop to a vaccination site set up at Robinsons Mall Ilocos during the first day of the national COVID-19 vaccination drive. At least 1,000 residents were targeted for inoculation at the mall for a day alone. Photo courtesy of Philippine Information Agency-Ilocos Norte

LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte—The Department of Health (DOH) in the Ilocos region announced on Monday (Nov. 29) that at least 93,505 individuals received their COVID-19 vaccines during the first day of the three-day national vaccination drive.

The COVID-19 vaccines were administered in at least 408 vaccination sites which were set up in the region.


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From Nov. 29 to Dec. 1, all the vaccination sites in the region should inoculate a combined total of at least 252,240 residents to achieve Ilocos region’s target vaccination coverage

For Ilocos Norte, at least 19,114 are being eyed to be vaccinated during the three-day activity, while 19,888 for Ilocos Sur, 36,314 in La Union, and 176,924 in Pangasinan, according to the DOH. INQ

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