There is only one way to fight and beat this coronavirus pandemic and it’s good for Dabawenyos to have a local government knowing it too well.
Yes, there is no shortcut to get past this medical wrath but to get everyone vaccinated and in the process achieve the so-called herd immunity.
We have seen how the city government practically move heavens to roll out the vaccination campaign across the population beginning with the frontliners and the vulnerable sector. Now, we are on the way to inoculating the younger members of the communities.
Once the show was on the road, the campaign was intense and far reaching. Vaccination went from day to night without let up even as some people remain adamant from getting vaccinated. The daily target is 15,000 doses administered.
Because of this aggressive campaign, the results show Davao City is now at 66 percent of its target number of inoculations against Covid-19 based on the last report by the city government. That’s a total of 792,932 individuals having received at least their first dose, and 50 percent or 600,070 fully vaccinated with two doses.
In order to achieve herd immunity, at least 1.2 million Davaoeños must be vaccinated. Achievable? Yes logistics-wise according to the Covid-19 team. However, there is a need for those who are hesitant to get their shots to be convinced to get vaccinated eventually.
The hesitant ones may not be too big a number but still they are not inconsequential. It matters a lot to get them to believe in science more than their unfounded
