More Sinovac vaccines for Negros Occidental and Bacolod City arrived Monday, April 12.
Former Rep. Alfredo Benitez flew in 11,400 Sinovac vaccines for Negros Occidental and 3,000 for Bacolod City from the Department of Health in Manila on his private jet that landed at 4:46 p.m. at the Bacolod Silay Airport.
More vaccines are coming, said Benitez, who is also Negros Occidental provincial consultant on economic affairs.
Benitez said he offered to fly in the vaccines so the province and city would get them faster.
He also pointed out that in the past the vaccine allocation for Negros was given to the other provinces in Western Visayas.
About 7,200 vaccines were diverted to the Panay provinces, Benitez said.
“So now what I will do is bring them straight from Manila to Negros,” Benitez said.
The DOH in Western Visayas said 5,295 health workers have been vaccinated in Bacolod City 6,496 in Negros Occidental.*