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rolls out Pfizer 2nd dose
T he provincial government of Negros Oriental has conducted the second dose of vaccinations for the Pfizer vaccine for residents who received this US brand a few weeks ago.
The inoculation against coronavirus disease 2019 was held at the Lamberto Macias Sports Center here from July 16 until Sunday, July 18.
vaccinations were done at the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital. Assistant Provincial
Social distancing is observed in the vaccination center at the Lamberto Macias Sports and Cultural Center for Pfizer vaccines. (Photo by Jing Villaflores)
CAMPUS NEWS
565 NegOr studes get college grants
each of 565 deserving college students a P5,000 financial grant for the second semester of the school year 2020-2021. Capitol information officer Bimbo Miraflor, in an interview, said the total amount of assistance is taken from the General Fund of the province for the Student Financial Assistance Program of Gov. Roel Degamo’s administration. Miraflor said the grant is for the students’ allowances after the provincial government announced it would be giving free college education to those enrolled in public institutions.
The provincial government previously offered scholarships to indigent but deserving students but it was cut short after the national government’s free education program started, he said. Degamo, after being elected governor in 2011, again implemented the scholarship program but this time giving grants for allowances to pre-identified recipients, he added.
The provincial government of Negros Oriental is giving
16,000 Dgte folk get vaccines
are from the province’s first district, 213 from the second district, and 95 from the third district, a post from the official Facebook page of the provincial government showed. (Judy F. Partlow/PNA)
Dgt-Mnl weekend flights yet
No
domestic commercial flights to and from Negros Oriental via the Dumaguete-Sibulan airport on weekends, a key official of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines here said on Friday. Mark Diamaoden, local CAAP chief and manager of the Dumaguete-Sibulan airport, said in an interview there are no changes in the flight schedules between here and Manila even as Negros Oriental is now placed under general community quarantine with heightened restrictions from July 16 to 31.
The daily flight schedules from Monday to Friday remain the same, before and even when the
TO PAGE 8 There are still no Of the total number of recipients, 257 college students
The City Health Office has vaccinated 13,698 eligible residents against coronavirus disease 2019, with a total of 16,135 jabs administered for the first and second doses. Of the total number of vaccinees, 1,726 are medical front-liners (A1 group); 5,724 are senior citizens (A2); 3,641 are persons with comorbidities (A3) and 2,607 are economic frontline personnel (A4), a media release from the city public information office said on Monday. Individuals belonging to priority sectors A1 to A4 who have registered online are continuously
being accommodated at two vaccination sites – the Robinsons Place shopping mall and the gymnasium in Barangay Pulantubig. Meanwhile, based on a report from the City Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, the City has 178 active Covid-19 cases as of July 11. Of
infections, 124 cases are being monitored by the personnel of the City Health Office; 22 are confined at the Silliman University Medical Center; four are admitted at the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital; 11
the a c tiv e
at the ACE Dumaguete Doctors Hospital; six at Holy Child Hospital; one at the Negros Polymedic Hospital; two at the Province-designated isolation facility; six are outside of Dumaguete, while two are hospital workers in a separate accredited isolation facility. This provincial capital
of Negros Oriental has logged the highest number of positive Covid-19 cases over the past months since a surge started that led to almost a month of being placed under the more restrictive modified enhanced community quarantine since June 16. (Judy F. Partlow/PNA)
Previously, the
Health Officer Dr. Liland Estacion, in a virtual presser, said the transfer of venue is to better enforce physical distancing since there is a bigger space at the sports center. Last month, the Provincial Health Office led the administration of 1,117 doses of Pfizer vaccine for a few days following the shipment’s arrival on June 24.
be disposed of at the earliest time possible as the province does not have an ultra-cold storage for this particular brand that requires below-freezing temperatures. Meanwhile, Estacion appealed to the people to not flock to the sports center if they are not on the list of those qualified to receive the second dose of the Pfizer jabs. She also said the
province is expected to receive additional vaccines, such as AstraZeneca and Sinovac, in the coming days. (Judy F. Partlow/PNA)
The vaccines had to
Environment advocates leading the # No to 174Dumaguete movement — Gary Rosales, Merci Ferrer, Aidalyn Arabe, and marine biologist Dr. Aileen Maypa — submit to Mayor Remollo the petition of thousands of Dumaguete residents and friends to stop the process of reclamation which will cover 85 percent of the City coastline and bury thousands of hectares of coral reefs and seagrass beds.
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