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Bacolod also has COVID-19 Vaccination QR (Quick Response) identification cards for its fully vaccinated residents, Em Ang, City Emergency Operations Center executive director, said Wednesday, October 20.The system has not been launched officially but it is operational, she said, adding that a link will be provided.Bacolod City will be using the Department of Information and Communications Technology system because it is approved by the World Health Organization and recognized even if one travels abroad, she said.The Bacolod Management Information Technology and Computer Services will generate the city’s “BACuna Card” that is being pilot tested and can be used by travelers, she said.Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson launched the Negros Occidental Monitoring Information System Portal ...

Nico Delfin photoThe Bacolod City government is intensifying its battle against COVID-19 as it implements its house-to-house vaccination campaign.“An intensified house-to-house vaccination will pave the way to herd immunity,” Emergency Operations Center-Task Force (EOC-TF) Executive Director Em Ang said in a press release Thursday, April 21.The initiative is currently focused on seven Bacolod barangays with the highest number of COVID-19 cases, she said.It is being implemented in close coordination with the village chiefs and their respective Barangay Health and Emergency Response Teams (BHERTs).The seven priority barangays are Mansilingan, Taculing, Tangub, Estefania, Villamonte, Mandalagan, and Alijis, she said.The intensified house-to-house vaccination drive invo...

City PIO photoThe close to 1,000-strong Burgos Public Market vendors Thursday, Oct. 21, endorsed the re-election bids of both Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia and his running mate, Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran, a press release from Grupo Progreso said.The vendors, who belong to four associations, also threw their solid support to the 12 Grupo Progreso candidates for councilor in a festive endorsement ceremony, complete with a live band performance, it added.The program's venue transformed the Burgos Market into a red zone with the official color of the GP, the political aggrupation formed by Leonardia in 2007, dominating the scene.In a three-page manifesto of support to the GP slate, signed by Benhur Anlap, Jr., president of the Katilingban nga Manugbaligya sa Merkado Bu...

Photo from europeanpharmaceuticalreview.comThe Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod on Wednesday, October 20, called for the pre-emptive purchase of anti COVID-19 medicines.The SP approved a resolution authored by Councilor Renecito Novero urging the City Health Office through the City Mayor’s Office to purchase medicines like Remdesivir and Tocilizumab that are reputed to be helpful in the healing and recovery of patients seriously infected with COVID-19.Remdesivir and Tocilizumab are the medicines that are usually prescribed but they are often unavailable when needed, Novero said.Their prices are also too high and unaffordable to low-income patients, he added.There is therefore a necessity for the city to have preemptive purchases of these medicines for the protection of Ba...