A woman gets her shot of Sinovac vaccine at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino vaccination site on Tuesday, August 10, 2021. CDN Digital photo | Mark Kavin Salomon
CEBU CITY, Philippines—Cebu City on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, launched another vaccination site.
The Cebu City Government, through its City Health Department (CHD), representatives from the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7), and executives from Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino launched the city’s seventh vaccination center at the Waterfront Hotel in Barangay Lahug here.
Waterfront is the first hotel-vaccination site in the city, and has the capacity to inoculate at least 500 people daily, said City Health Officer Dr. Jeffrey Ibones.
“This is our seventh vaccination site. And for the meantime, we will be administering Sinovac,” said Ibones.
Anders Hallden, general manager of Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino, said they are planning to increase their capacity to inoculate 1,500 individuals per day.
“With the opening of the hotel as the newest site, we hope that we will be able contribute to the city’s ongoing vaccine rollout and vaccinate more and more Cebuanos in the hopes of reaching the ultimate goal of ‘herd community’ here in Cebu. As a matter of fact, we are eyeing to administer 500 vaccines to start with and rising to 1,500 vaccinees daily,” said Hallden.
“We continue to urge our fellowmen here in Cebu to get vaccinated because it is the best way for us to finally put an end to this pandemic,” he added.
Cebu City has a total of 11 vaccination sites, including Waterfront.
The others are SM Seaside City Cebu, Robinsons Galleria, Ayala Center Cebu, the Banilad and J. Alcantara Street Campuses of the University of Cebu (UC), and NOAH Complex in the South Road Properties.
The city has also established four vaccination centers in the mountain barangays for residents in the remote, hinterland areas.
As of August 9, Cebu City, with a population of over 960,000, has administered a total of 302,071 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, based on the latest report from the Visayas Vaccination Operations Center (VVOC).
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