BACOLOD City – This city is opening 40 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination sites for the three-day national inoculation drive beginning today until Dec. 1.
These are in schools, barangays and malls, with 127 volunteers to accommodate the vaccinees.
The vaccination will start at 8 a.m. in the schools and barangays while 10 a.m. in malls.
The vaccination teams are composed of health screeners, vaccinators, post-vaccination monitors, registration personnel, encoders, data consolidators or talliers, and health educators, said Em Ang, executive director of Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
“We thank the volunteers for agreeing to serve in the nationwide drive to ramp up COVID-19 vaccination,” Ang added.
Bacolod eyes to vaccinate 66,000 people.
“The target may be too high but Bacolod will exert its best effort to inoculate as many in three days,” Ang said.
Recently, the city posted its highest number of vaccinees in a single day at 13,403.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia enjoined Bacolodnons to take part in the program despite the declining COVID-19 cases in the city.
Meanwhile, vaccinees aged 12 to 17 must bring either their birth or baptismal certificate and identification card (ID), parent’s or guardian’s valid ID, and authoritization letter signed by parents.
Adult vaccinees must bring any government-issued ID.
Pregnant women who are in their second or third tri-mester are required to present a valid ID and medical clearance from their doctors.
Those who want to get booster jabs may bring their valid ID and vaccination cards./PN
