AN ADDITIONAL 16,800 vials of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines are set to arrive in Negros Occidental Tuesday, June 8.

This was confirmed Monday, June 7, by Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz, who said that the arriving vaccines will be released to the local government units that would like to use them.

"Those who do not use the vaccines will not be given the allocation," Diaz said.

Diaz also revealed that Covid-19 cases in the province have been declining already compared to the high cases in the month of April where Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson even requested the National Inter-Agency Task Force to place the province under a stricter quarantine status.

"About the general community status, Iloilo is asking for it because they are worried about the rising cases in their area. Our situation is improving and we managed to lower our cases to thirty percent," Diaz said.

He noted that the previous super spreader of Covid-19, such as Kabankalan City, Sagay City, San Carlos City, and even Himamaylan City, their positivity [rate] have gone down.

"I already presented the data to the governor and it is up to him to decide about the future quarantine status of the province," Diaz said.

He said the executive order signed by the governor in April limiting to only 30 percent the venue and gatherings had helped in lowering the number of cases.

He also said that from the previous 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., the curfew hours throughout the province have already been lowered to 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. because of the decline in the number of cases.

Diaz also said that the Provincial Quarantine facilities are not full at this time despite the province accommodating quarantine from out of town.