Reynor Rodriguez, the city’s vaccination coordinator, said the project is expected to reduce the number of unvaccinated children age 5 to 11 years old. At present, there are around 15 percent of the target 30,000 children have been inoculated.

The city government is administering Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines to children of such age group as recommended by the Food and Drug Administration. The Pfizer vaccine for kids is specially formulated for younger bodies – it only has 10 micrograms per dose compared to the adult version, which has 30 micrograms per dose.

As in previous conduct of child vax, the city government will see to it that the pediatric vax sites are child-friendly to make the inoculation drive as fun and exciting as possible using mascots, costumes, music, and colorful designs.

In the city’s vaccination campaign, Rodriguez said the city is continuously undertaking its vax drive despite having vaccinated around 74 percent already of its 210,000 general population.

Meanwhile, the city government is continuously conducting coordination with the private sector, especially to the management of different malls, where off-site immunization activities can be held.

He said the city government is doing some arrangements so that parents who wish to submit their children for off-site immunization will be accommodated thru online scheduling.

Ini an pighahagad kan panundon na pigpaluwas ngonian na aldaw, Disyember 13, ni Alkalde Nelson Legacion asin Dr. Vito Borja, chairman kan Health Emergency Response Task Force kan syudad nin Naga.

Pigtatawan pa nin du-on sa New Localized Guidelines na an mga unvaccinated workers o habong magpabakuna pwedeng togotan na magtrabaho sa saindang workstations kun igwa sindang maipepresentar na negative RTPCR o Antigen Test kada ika-14 na aldaw. An empleyado mismo an ma-gastos kan saiyang pagpa-test.

Kun dae pwedeng magpabakuna an sarong trabahante, kaipuhan siyang magpaheling nin medical clearance hale sa sarong government health office bilang valid proof na dae siya pwedeng magpabakuna.

An guidelines o panundon para sa paglaog nin tao sa public and private establishments, simbahan asin mga pampublikong lugar (para magtrabaho o magpasyar) nagsasabi pa na an gabos na partially vaccinated employees na matrabaho sa saindang mga workstation dae kaipuhan pang magsairarom sa regular RT PCR test na sinda an ma-gastos, kun an second dose kan bakuna dae pa man napapanahon na itao saiya.

An mga personang yaon sa edad 12 anyos sagkod pataas totogotan na maglaog sa public and private establishments asin places of worship kun sinda bakunado. Sa mga taong edad poon 11 anyos sagkod pababa, totogotan sinda na magluwas sa harong asin maglaog sa pampubliko asin pribadong establisemyento kun kaibahan ninda an saindang magurang o guardian na bakunado na. An mga aki na may edad poon 3 taon sagkod pataas kaipuhan nakasulot nin face masks.

Pigsasaysay pa sa panundon na oobligaron kan mga establisemyento asin lugar nin pagsamba (simbahan) na magpaheling nin vaccination card an gabos na eligible persons (12 years old and above) bago makalaog sa edipisyo.

Pigsusugo man sa paagi kan guidelines an Naga City Police Office, Public Safety Office, City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office, Barangay Officials, asin Tanods asin mga pigmimidbid na mga force multipliers na syertuhon an pagpaotob kan mga panundon. Kaibahan na an paggibo nin mga random inspections kan vaccination cards.

Pighahagad pa sa NCPO na maggibo nin orientation para sa mga security guards para sa pagpapaotob kan mga reglamentos.

Receiving a Covid-19 vaccine shot can help make vaccinees feel at peace not to be infected with the virus while continuously observing always the appropriate health and safety protocols.

This was given emphasis by Danilo Gerona, a history professor at the Partido State University in Goa, Camarines Sur, who received his first dose of Sinovac vaccine last May 6 at the Naga City Vaccination Operations Center (Jesse M. Robredo Coliseum). Second dose will be administered after 4 weeks.

Gerona said he felt a sigh of relief after having been vaccinated. “In this time of pandemic, almost every one of us are alarmed of being infected with the dreaded SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19,” he said.

Like any other vaccine, Gerona felt no adverse reaction after taking the vaccine. The professor was among the third batch of vaccinees whose inoculation was administered by the medical healthcare workers of the city government of Naga. The first was conducted at the Bicol Medical Center with the LGU’s medical frontliners as vaccine recipients while the second with the same beneficiaries was held at the Jesse M. Robredo Coliseum.

Meanwhile, the LGU has started the distribution of more than 200 Covid-19 Care Kits to households whose members are in home quarantine or under house lockdown.
On Monday, May 10, the mayor toured barangays Dayangdang, Liboton, and Peñafrancia to personally deliver the kits along with the food stuffs and other assistance to families undergoing home quarantine.

Each kit is contained with vitamins, disinfectants (alcohol), face masks, digital thermometer, and pulse oximeter, which measures how much oxygen is in the blood.

NAGA CITY — A majority number of mall owners and supervisors of Business Process Outsourcing firms in the city have closed ranks with the city government here in the conduct of the planned mass immunization that will start to reel off by 3rd or 4th quarter of 2021.

The manifestation of support from the business sector was discussed in a meeting with Mayor Nelson Legacion last Monday, Jan. 18, specifically the plan by big establishment owners to purchase their own AstraZeneca vaccines that will be used for the immunization of their employees.

In an interview, Mayor Nelson Legacion said that he raised in the meeting his proposition to the businessmen to consider in the purchase of their own vaccines their employees’ household members as beneficiaries also.

Earlier, a BPO firm has signified with the mayor its intention to purchase 4,000 doses of the vaccine intended for the vaccination of its 2,000 employees. The company openly told the mayor to include them in the city government’s firm order.

Initially, the LGU has ordered 180 thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccines for the first 90,000 Nagueños.
The meeting was participated in by the officers of Metro Naga Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Metro Naga Water District, and representatives of those in BPO and retail industries.

As of press time yesterday, the city mayor has been preparing for a zoom meeting with a British government official who manifested his willingness to extend assistance to the LGU in its plan to procure vaccines.