As of October 4, a total of 1,000,608 people in Cebu had already been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.Loreche encouraged Cebuanos to get inoculated to protect themselves from severe infections and hospitalization.
“We will now try to encourage all to be vaccinated and we can start on ‘ring immunization’ as our way of handling this. Meaning, we [will] vaccinate more areas with low number of cases,” she said. “Should the entire 3.5 million [people] be difficult for us [to vaccinate], then we need 1.5 million more to safely have that population protection,” she added.
If Cebu wants to achieve herd immunity before the end of 2021, it should administer at least 19,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines daily, health officials said.Aside from those implemented by local governments in Cebu, the vaccination program here is also simultaneously done by the private sector-led Project Balik Buhay.