ABOUT 100 healthcare workers in Bacolod City including village chiefs were vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine against coronavirus disease (Covid-19) Friday, March 19, 2021.
Councilor Renecito Novero, member of Bacolod Covid-19 vaccination (Covac) Council, said Friday a simultaneous simulation exercise and rollout of Sinovac vaccines was held in 10 barangays in the city.
These included Barangays 4, 39, Alijis, Banago, Granada, Handumanan, Mansilingan, Pahanocoy, Punta Taytay and Taculing.
Novero said each barangay had 10 recipients of Sinovac vaccine, who were identified as medical frontliners.
He said the village chiefs of Barangays 1 and Pahanocoy also received their first doses of Sinovac vaccine.
This came after the National Inter-Agency Task Force earlier approved the request of the national president of League of the Cities of the Philippines to classify local chief executives among the priorities for vaccination against Covid-19.
This meant the 1,634 provincial governors, city and municipal mayors. Also included are 42,046 barangay captains all over the country.
Novero said they are also willing to be vaccinated and are only waiting for additional vaccines allocated for Bacolod.
Bacolod City already reserved 650,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines. Once they arrive, the city will use the 26 vaccination centers for the Covid-19 vaccine program.
“We are ready and we have already prepared 26 vaccination centers including the barangay gymnasiums and schools,” Novero said.
He said the vaccination centers should have a big space to accommodate a big number of residents who want to be vaccinated.
He added that they will also provide a refrigerating unit in every vaccination center as well as generators to preserve the vaccines.
Since last week, more than 2, 000 medical frontliners in Bacolod City were inoculated with Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines.