The City Information Office (CIO) in its report said the city will adopt the per barangay strategy especially to maximize vaccination coverage.
City Vaccination Cluster head Dr. Josephine Villafuerte said the strategy now will be done per barangay not only to the identified sites but they will go to the barangay, especially those with low coverage.
She said the cluster has a list of barangays with low vaccination coverage.
“So far in Davao City we have at least 50 percent of the total barangays with lower than 70 percent coverage. In big barangays there is already a huge coverage - reaching 80 or more,” Villafuerte said.
Villafuerte further said that the vaccination drive may be continued beyond March 31 or up to the weekend in some areas to allow the vaccination teams to travel to the barangays and prepare the area in coordination with the barangay captains.
“They will set up in the area and also do house-to-house vaccination,” she added.
Villafuerte also emphasized that their main priority is to administer the booster doses.
“Hopefully, once everybody is immunized it will be difficult for the virus to mutate,” Villafuerte said.
As of March 26, the city has administered a total of 1,319,733 for the first dose; 1,292,684 for the second dose; and only 229,588 Dabawenyos received their booster shots.
She encouraged the public to get vaccinated and have vaccination cards as this may be a requirement in some areas or establishments.
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