Bacolod to get 15,000 more doses of Moderna vaccines

BACOLOD. City Administrator Em Ang, executive director of Emergency Operations Center- Task Force. (File photo)
BACOLOD. City Administrator Em Ang, executive director of Emergency Operations Center- Task Force. (File photo)

THE City Government of Bacolod will receive an additional 15,000 doses of Moderna vaccines from the National Government this week.

City Administrator Em Ang, executive director of Emergency Operations Center- Task Force (EOC-TF), on Monday, August 9, 2021, said they are expecting additional 15,000 doses of Moderna vaccines this week. This was already announced that there will be an allocation of Moderna vaccines for Western Visayas.

“We are expecting any day to be delivered here and, hopefully, it will arrive soon so that more Bacolodnons will be vaccinated,” she said.

Aside from Moderna vaccines, she added the city is also expecting the additional delivery of the city’s procured AstraZeneca vaccines this month.

From March to July 2021, Bacolod City has received a total of 193,850 combined doses of Sinovac, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer vaccines from the national government.

On top of this allocation, the City has procured 650,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines using local funds. Of this number, 18,700 doses have already arrived on July 19.

The city will administer the vaccines to priority groups A1, A2 and A3, as well as in priority groups A4 and A5.

The City will accommodate only those who have completed their vaccination registration and have received a call or text from the Emergency Operations Center of their confirmed appointments.

Ang said they also opened Monday an additional vaccination center at the Gaisano City Mall in partnership with the Philippine Red Cross and it is for free.

She said the City Government has a total of 33 vaccination centers and Gaisano City Mall will be the sixth mall-based vaccination center in the city.

To avail of the free vaccination, Bacolod residents should register online through the link tinyurl.com/bcdceironline or go personally to their respective barangay halls.

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