Davao City – To usher the government’s COVID-19 vaccination deployment plan, the City Government of Davao is inviting all senior citizens to participate in the online survey organized by the Department of Health (DOH) Davao Region ahead of the vaccination roll out for seniors against the respiratory disease.
The online survey is, which will be conducted periodically, aimed at determining the level of vaccine confidence and willingness of senior citizens to get vaccinated.
In the national government’s COVID-19 vaccination prioritization framework, senior citizens are listed under Priority Group “A2”, next in line to receive the coronavirus vaccines after the frontline health workers.
Participation in this survey is voluntary and will take around 15 minutes, it said.
Participants must answer and submit the online survey form on or before March 29, Monday.
The online survey form can be accessed through this link:Â bit.ly/COVIDVaccineSurveySenior2
Based on the master list of the Office for the Senior Citizen Affairs (OSCA), there are over 77,000 seniors in the city that are expected to be vaccinated against the respiratory illness.
Currently, more than 12,700 healthcare workers from public health facilities and private hospitals in Davao City have been inoculated with Sinovac’s Coronavac and AstraZeneca vaccines this week. This is about 59 percent of the 21,442 targeted numbers of healthcare workers to get the anti-Covid jabs.
Recently, Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte disclosed that another batch of vaccines is expected to arrive by the end of March via the national government’s vaccine allocation, for the inoculation of the rest of those under Priority Group A.
Duterte also said that the city has secured 30,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the tripartite agreement with the national government, which are expected to arrive in the third quarter of the year.
Meanwhile, Dr. Josephine Villafuerte, the Head of Davao City’s Vaccination Cluster, stressed that vaccination will not move to the next priority group until all of those who belong to the frontline health group are vaccinated. (City Information Office | Michael Manguhig, RPN DXKT Davao OIC)