Dr. Michelle Schlosser, the spokesperson of the Davao City COVID-19 Task Force called on families to visit the People's Park on Saturday to avail of the anti-COVID-19 primary two-dose vaccination series and booster shots.
The city partnered with the Philippine National Red Cross-Davao City chapter for this vaccination program.
She thanked the city health workers for sacrificing their weekends, which they could have spent with their families, to protect more Davaoeños in the wake of the growing COVID-19 cases and the new Omicron sub variants.
Schlosser also thanked Mayor Sebastian "Baste" Duterte for supporting the weekend vaccination rollout, considering that it would entail additional logistics and funding.
As of October 21, the city recorded 103 new COVID-19 cases with a 14 percent positivity rate. Of this number, 59 are asymptomatic and 44 are mild cases.
Since Davao City has already exceeded the target population, she said, "Vaccination really works because most of our vaccinated COVID-19 cases either don't have any symptoms or only have mild symptoms. What's important is to prevent death due to a severe or critical type of COVID-19,” Schlosser said in a report from the City Information Office (CIO).
Schlosser, meanwhile, urged parents to submit their children to vaccination to give them an extra layer of protection, as face to face classes begin on November 2.
File Photo from Davao City Government