Bohol continues to 

up vax coverage

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, April 8 (PIA) -- The sprint for Bohol to hit 80% of its 1,106,084 population eligible for vaccination continues as teams unleash their draining energies on this stretch to achieve 63.3% vaccination rate.

Getting to 80% eligible population given complete vaccines of two doses would be a key in convincing the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to bring down Bohol’s COVID-19 Alert Level status from Alert Level 2 to Alert Level 1.

Alert Level 1 would allow Bohol’s tourism industry top open at a full 100% capacity.

In March, for example, with Bohol’s leading tourism destination in the Chocolate Hills, Carmen starting to open up to 70% venue capacity under the Alert Level 2 status, Carmen Tourism Officer Bernadeth Adlawon reported nearly 27,000 tourism arrivals.

In its report on April 6, the Bohol Inter-Agency Task Force on the management of Emerging Infectious Disease (BIATF) and based on the data from the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) of the Provincial Vaccination Operations hub, a total of 699,658 Boholanos have received the complete doses of the vaccines.

BIATF has pegged the 80% target population to be given full protection at 1,106,084.

According to the BIATF report, there are already 691,350 Boholanos who have received their initial doses. (RAHC/PIA7 Bohol)