Chris Sorongon, former deputy chief of the city's Emergency Operations Center, says the national government controls the distribution of vaccines to provinces.
announced possible limits on the number of AstraZeneca doses that would be shipped abroad, owing to a lack of supply for its own needs.
He said the city’s purchases were “upon the prodding of the previous national government when vaccine supply was a scarcity.” All supplies delivered earlier by the DOH have been administered by the EOC and medical frontliners of the COVID-19 Vaccination Council, resulting in a 136% vaccination rate for Bacolod, the highest in the whole of Region VI as certified by the DOH and reflected in the daily SITREP, Sorongon stressed..Before Leonardia stepped down, he left a city with an impressive 146% vaccination coverage for its target adult population.
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