THE City Government of Bacolod received 51, 040 doses of Covid-19 vaccines on Monday, July 19, 2021.
The city received an initial 18, 700 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines, which are part of the 650,000 doses procured by the city, Johnson & Johnson - 30,000 doses, and Pfizer - 2,340 doses.
The vaccines were brought immediately to the cold room facility at the Bacolod Government Center.
"We are very pleased to announce we got 51,040 doses of vaccines, the biggest volume we've received in one delivery since the implementation of our vaccination program," Leonardia said in a statement Monday, July 19, 2021.
"We wish to thank Secretary Charlie Galvez for keeping his word to keep Bacolod among the priorities and we are sure this volume will help us accelerate the implementation of our vaccination program," he added.
He said it must be noted that the 18,700 doses of AstraZeneca is already part of the vaccines that we contracted in our tripartite agreement with the national government and AstraZeneca.
"And with this, we expect our locally funded vaccines to come on regular basis. This is good news to the many who are waiting considering that we had already been allowed to include priorities A1 until A5," the mayor said.
“We, again, appeal for the participation of our people in our vaccination program even as we thank those in the malls and in the barangays who have been tirelessly working to inoculate as many and as fast as can be," he said.
As of July 18, the Covid-19 Vaccination Council (Covac) already inoculated a total of 66,012 Bacolod residents using Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines. Of the number, 22,477 persons were already fully vaccinated.