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ILOILO CITY—The pertussis outbreak in this city is 80 percent controlled, and the city health office is considering lifting the state of calamity declared due to the disease by the end of the month.
“We are open to lifting it with the approval of the mayor and the council by the end of the month. We are successful with our strategies,” she added. Iloilo City recorded its last confirmed case of pertussis on April 17, a boy, one-year and eight months, said Assistant City Health Officer Roland Jay Fortuna in the same media conference.He added that they have vaccinated 8,689 children as part of the outbreak response immunization .
Further, 741 of the 926 target pregnant women received their tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccines
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