VACCINATED. A senior citizen gets an AstraZeneca Covid-19 shot at the Andres Bonifacio Elementary School vaccination center in Bacolod City on Friday (May 14, 2021). The city government is rolling out the recently-delivered European brand vaccines in 24 vaccination centers from May 14 to 21. (Photo courtesy of Bacolod City PIO)
BACOLOD CITY – Some 24 vaccination centers here are rolling out coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) jabs, particularly the recently-delivered AstraZeneca brand, from May 14 to 21.
The schedule provided by the city government on Sunday showed that 22 vaccination hubs in various barangays and schools will mostly open from May 17 to 21 to inoculate individuals from three priority sectors.
The two other centers are based in shopping malls, including SM City Bacolod and Ayala Malls Capitol Central, where the vaccination rollout has been ongoing initially for Sinovac’s CoronaVac in the past week, and for AstraZeneca starting last Friday.
In a statement, Mayor Evelio Leonardia said the city government aims to inoculate as many Bacolodnons as possible.
“While our vaccine supply meanwhile is dependent on the national government allocation, we will try to vaccinate as fast as possible upon the arrival of the vaccines,” he added.
The target vaccinees are the remaining frontline healthcare workers (A1), senior citizens (A2), and persons with comorbidities (A3).
On May 14, the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccines started in seven villages and clusters.
These included barangays Villamonte, Mansilingan, Alijis, Punta Taytay, and Mandalagan, and areas under the Barangay 39 cluster and Andres Bonifacio Elementary School cluster.
The rollout between May 17 and 24 will be launched in barangays Montevista, Handumanan, Vista Alegre, Felisa, Estefania, Alangilan, Bata, Banago, Granada, Singcang-Airport, and Taculing (Forest Park), and in areas under the Education and Training Center School cluster, Barangay 38 cluster, and Barangay Pahanocoy cluster.
A total of 6,900 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines have been allocated for the 22 vaccination centers in the villages and the clusters, data of the city government showed.
Existing procedures set by the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) are being employed for the vaccination sequence, which also takes into consideration the order of registration shown in the city’s database.
Only those who have completed their vaccination registration and have received a call or text from the EOC notifying them of their appointments are being accommodated to avoid overcrowding.
“We expect that by July when the installments of our locally-funded 650,000 AstraZeneca doses start to arrive, we can even accelerate the whole process,” Leonardia said.
As of May 15, Bacolod recorded a total of 8,342 cases, including 962 active cases, 7,151 recoveries, and 229 deaths. (PNA)
