THE Mandaue City Government has registered 36 percent of the city’s total population of senior citizens for its Covid-19 vaccination program as of Monday, April 5, 2021.
Mandaue City Vaccine Board chairman Ernie Manatad said out of 24,097 senior citizens validated by the Office of the Senior Citizens Association (Osca), 8,700 were registered on the city’s masterlist for the Covid-19 vaccination program.
However, separate data from the Department of Health (DOH) 7 showed that Mandaue City’s registered senior citizens numbered 36,000.
Manatad said the figures may vary since they based the total population of senior citizens on the Osca’s validated 2020 masterlist.
He said the DOH might have included those who just turned 60 years old and those who were not yet validated by the OSCA.