The next recipients of the bivalent COVID-19 shots after the Negros Occidental provincial government hospital workers will be the personnel of the provincial, city and municipal health offices.
The national government sent Negros Occidental 352 vials of bivalent vaccines that are equivalent to 2,112 doses, Dr. Girlie Pinongan, Provincial Health Office OIC, said Friday, July 28.
There are 692 hospital workers eligible for the bivalent vaccines so the rest will be used for the personnel of the health offices, she said.
Bivalent vaccines offer protection against the original COVID-19 virus and the Omicron variant and its subvariants.
Healthcare workers who received second booster doses four months ago are eligible for the bivalent jabs.*