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AstraZeneca vaccines arriving Friday for 1,930 senior citizen frontliners

Twelve Negros Occidental hospital frontliners were the first to be vaccinated Thursday, March 11.*

The Department of Health is sending AstraZeneca vaccines to Negros Occidental and Bacolod City for 1,930 hospital frontliners who are 60 years old and above on Friday, March 12, Jane Juanico, DOH 6 infectious disease cluster head, said Thursday, March 11.

She said 1,930 AstraZeneca doses will be sent for 370 frontliners in four Negros Occidental priority hospitals and 1,560 in Bacolod City for their first jab. The second doses will be sent later, she added.

The four priority hospitals in Negros Occidental are the Teresita L. Jalandoni Provincial Hospital in Silay City, Cadiz District Hospital in Cadiz City, Lorenzo D. Zayco District Hospital in Kabankalan City and Valladolid District Hospital in Valladolid town, Juanico said.

Negros Occidental will also get additional Sinovac vaccines since 2,590 frontliners in its 11 hospitals have signed up for vaccination, she said. Negros Occidental was provided with an initial 1,600 doses on Wednesday, March 10.

Bacolod City has already received vaccines for its 2,350 hospital frontliners, she said, and no additional supply will be given to the city for now.

The additional Bacolod frontliners who want to be vaccinated will have to wait for the next shipment of Sinovac vaccines from the national government before more can be allocated, she said.

There are 1,909 Bacolod hospital frontliners who have been vaccinated with Sinovac vaccines as of today, City Administrator Em Ang said.

Secretary Vivencio “Vince” Dizon, COVID-19 testing czar and deputy chief implementer of the National Task Force Against COVID-19, said 10,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines arrived in Western Visayas on Wednesday and are now being distributed throughout the region.

Dizon, who was in Silay City for the Negros Occidental COVID-19 vaccination launching at the TLJPH in Silay City, said “Negros should get them by tomorrow (March 12). I instructed them through the orders of Secretary (Carlito) Galvez to already distribute the AstraZeneca vaccines immediately.”

He said for AstraZeneca vaccines the priority will be senior citizen hospital frontliners.

On the request for additional Sinovac vaccines for Bacolod City, Dizon said ”when the supply arrives again in late March then we will send again. We will keep on sending as they arrive.”

The acceptance of Sinovac vaccines is now very high, in fact, Panay needs more, he said.

“The demand is greater than the supply now. We are very, very happy about that,” he said.

“All COVID-19 vaccines regardless of brand can 100 percent protect people from severe disease and death. That is most important,” Dizon said.*

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