A TOTAL of 3,993 medical frontliners in Bacolod City were inoculated with Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines from March 12 to 19, 2021.
Dr. Chris Sorongon, deputy for medical data and analysis of Emergency Operations Center-Task Force (EOC-TF), on Sunday, March 21, 2021, said from March 12 to 19, a total of 2,659 medical frontliners were vaccinated with Sinovac vaccine and another 1,343 medical frontliners were also inoculated with AstraZeneca vaccine.
He said on Friday, a total of 100 barangay health workers were inoculated in a simultaneous simulation exercise and rollout of Sinovac vaccines in 10 barangays.
These included Barangays 4, 39, Alijis, Banago, Granada, Handumanan, Mansilingan, Pahanocoy, Punta Taytay and Taculing. Each barangay had 10 recipients of Sinovac vaccine, who were identified as medical frontliners.
Bacolod City earlier received a total of 156 vials of AstraZeneca vaccine from the national government that were distributed to Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, Riverside Medical Center, Bacolod Adventist Medical Center and The Doctor’s Hospital, Inc.
The 156 vials of AstraZeneca vaccine can accommodate a total of 1,560 recipients.
Aside from the AstraZeneca vaccine, Bacolod City also received another 840 doses of Sinovac vaccine that were used for medical frontliners assigned at isolation quarantine facilities, City Health Office, Barangay Health Workers, independent clinics and laboratories.
The AstraZeneca vaccines were given to medical frontliners ages 60 years old and above.
Sorongon noted that the vaccine recipient should receive the same brand of vaccine on their first and second doses of vaccination.
“Once they received the Sinovac vaccine in the first dose, they should also get the Sinovac vaccine in the second dose. They should not mix the Sinovac, AstraZeneca or another brand of Covid-19 vaccines,” Sorongon said.
He said they will only wait for the next arrival of the vaccine since there was an initial report that all the vaccines will focus in Metro Manila due to the surge in coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases.
“So far, in Bacolod City our Covid-19 cases are under control. All the Covid patients were transferred to the isolation facility and the surveillance testing is still ongoing. We are also monitoring the business establishments in the city,” he added.
As of March 20, Bacolod City had a total of 5,901 Covid-19 cases. Of the number, 5,622 were recoveries, 93 were active cases and 186 were deaths.
On the same day, Bacolod City had a total of three new cases.
Sorongon said most of the Covid-19 patients include close contacts, locally stranded individuals, authorized persons outside residence and pregnant women.
Meanwhile, Sorongon said they are only waiting for a copy of the resolution from the national Inter-Agency Task Force to include city officials in the vaccination program.
“We will wait for the copy of the resolution first to vaccinate them and to avoid technicalities,” he said.