MORE JABS. Kidapawan Mayor Joseph Evangelista, chair of the local Inter-Agency Task Force on Covid-19, presides over the city Inter-Agency Task Force meeting Monday (Oct. 25, 2021) where the group decided to increase the number of persons to be vaccinated in the city to 4,000 daily. With the boost in the vaccination drive, the mayor projects a 70-percent inoculation or 110,000 of the city’s 157,000 targeted population within a week. (Photo courtesy of Kidapawan LGU)
KIDAPAWAN CITY – From the daily 1,000 individuals getting vaccinated here, the city’s Inter-Agency Task Force on coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has decided to raise the number of persons to be accommodated for inoculation to 4,000.
On Tuesday, Mayor Joseph Evangelista said the vaccination rollout will be ramped up with more vaccines arriving in the city.
“Kidapawan City is among the local government units in Region 12 with a high number of vaccine allocation so we need to increase our daily target,” Evangelista told reporters here.
He said National Task Force Against Covid-19 chief implementer and vaccine czar Sec. Carlito Galvez and Health Sec. Francisco Duque III, in a Zoom meeting Monday, assured Kidapawan will get more vaccines because of its high-performance rate in previous vaccination activities.
Evangelista said Galvez and Duque also recognized Kidapawan’s capability to stock and keep vaccines with its existing ultra-low temperature freezers in the city’s cold chain facility.
He added that the city is expected to get 180,000 more vaccines from the Department of Health in Soccsksargen region.
The mayor also projected a 70-percent inoculation or 110,000 of the city’s target population of 157,000 within a week once the vaccination rollout goes full swing.
Evangelista, meanwhile, announced that Kidapawan Bishop Jose Colin Bagaforo has opened the Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces Cathedral parish gymnasium as a walk-in vaccination area.
“The city government’s initiative is to bring the vaccination to Kidapaweños doorsteps,” the mayor said. (PNA)
