VACCINATED. A resident of Ilog town in Negros Occidental gets vaccinated against Covid-19 in early December last year. The vaccination campaign has resumed this week in areas badly hit by Typhoon Odette in southern Negros. (File photo courtesy of Ilog Municipal Health Office)
BACOLOD CITY – The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination campaign has resumed this week in some areas of southern Negros Occidental affected by Typhoon Odette.
As of Thursday, inoculation was being conducted in identified villages in the cities of Kabankalan and Sipalay, as well as the municipalities of Ilog and Cauayan, based on the Facebook posts of their respective local governments and health offices.
Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz II said the Provincial Health Office continues to focus on the Covid-19 vaccination campaign.
“In all health offices, if power is already available and their freezers and refrigerators are okay, we already start delivering the vaccines,” he added.
In Kabankalan and Sipalay, vaccination continued in some villages starting January 4 while in Ilog and Cauayan, inoculation sites in certain barangays resumed on January 5.
On December 30, vaccination was also conducted in three villages in Cauayan.
Data released by the provincial government showed that more than 1.1 million Negrenses have already been vaccinated with at least one dose of Covid-19 jab as of December 2021.
The number represents 60.87 percent of the 1.825 million target population.
About 769,746 Negrenses or 42.17 percent have been fully vaccinated.
Local government units that have inoculated more than 70 percent of their target population include La Carlota City, Murcia, Sagay City, Talisay City, Cadiz City, Victorias City, EB Magalona, and Pulupandan. (PNA)
