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LCC-B photoBacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia said on Friday, November 12, that he is confident the city government will meet its goal to inoculate 100 percent of its target population by December 2021.Leonardia cited the assessment of the Department of Health in Western Visayas echoed by Regional Director Adriano Suba-an, who congratulated the mayor Thursday when he paid him a courtesy visit because Bacolod has already posted a 50 percent vaccination rate."We are on our way to herd immunity," said Leonardia, who joined frontliners from the Emergency Operations Center-Task Force and COVID-19 Vaccination Council, both headed by Executive Director Em Legaspi-Ang, and the City Health Office led by officer-in-charge Dr. Edwin Miraflor, Jr., during the Vac-to-School campaign to administ...

City PIO photoThe Department of Health in Western Visayas lauded Bacolod City's anti-COVID-19 campaign, and commended the local government's strategies that resulted to the control of the virus' spread.Dr. Adriano Suba-an, DOH regional director, congratulated Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia for leading the charge as the city continues its battle against the health crisis, a press release from the Bacolod City Public Information Office said."I want to personally say thank you and congratulate Mayor Bing Leonardia and the (Emergency Operations Center-Task Force) team for a job well done. It takes a community to fight this virus," Suba-an, who called on the mayor Thursday evening at the Bacolod City Government Center, said.The city's isolation and quarantine protocols, vaccinat...

The Bacolod City Cold Chain Facility received 400 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the Gokongwei Foundation Wednesday, November 10."We are heartened with the additional vaccines donated by Gokongwei Foundation," former City Administrator Em Legaspi-Ang, Emergency Operations Center-Task Force executive director, said in a press release Friday, November 12.The support coming from the private sector, like the Gokongwei Group, for Bacolod's vaccination campaign "has inspired us to work harder to fast track our goal to achieve herd immunity."Ang is also the COVID-19 Vaccination Council coordinator.Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia thanked the Gokongwei Foundation for its support to the local government's vaccination drive."This simply highlights the fact that public-private p...