MEDICAL frontliners and senior citizens who fall under the priority groups A1 and A2 are the current priority for the vaccine booster rollout in Zamboanga City.
Dr. Dulce Amor Miravite, city health officer, said they started last week giving vaccine booster doses to members of the A1 and A2 priority groups who have completed the primary vaccination series.
Miravite said the vaccine booster rollout for the rest of the population will follow later based on the guidelines from the Department of Health (DOH).
The DOH said earlier that the vaccine booster can be given to an individual six months after receiving the second dose of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine.
It, however, approved on December 21 to give a single-dose booster as early as three months after the second dose for individuals who completed their AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer, Sinovac, or Sputnik jabs, and as early as two months for those that received the single-dose Janssen vaccine.
Latest City Health Office showed that 489,068 residents of Zamboanga City have received their second dose of Covid-9 vaccine, representing 70.40 percent of the target eligible population of 694,696 for vaccination.
The data showed that 18,121 of the 489,068 fully vaccinated are health workers in frontline services who belong to the A1 priority group while 45,444 are senior citizens who fall under A2 priority group. (SunStar Zamboanga)