BACOLOD City – The city government is bringing its coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination campaign to schools.
Dr. Chris Sorongon, medical deputy of the Emergency Operations Center-Task Force (EOC-TF), said they will start with five schools.
On Nov. 5, the campaign kicked off at St. Scholastica’s Academy. About 300 students received anti-COVID jabs.
It will be followed by Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod, with 600 vaccinees on Nov. 10; St. John’s Institute, 660 – Nov. 12; La Consolacion College-Bacolod, 600 – Nov. 12, and Trinity Christian School, 460 – Nov. 13.
Sorongon said the EOC-TF is awaiting the schedule for Bacolod Tay Tung High School, while the University of Saint La Salle-Integrated School and Saint Joseph School-La Salle are finalizing the master list of their vaccinees.
On Thursday, more teens with comorbidities were able to avail themselves of the vaccine at the Riverside College campus.
On Wednesday, the city government conducted simultaneous vaccination for minors aged 12 to 17, with a total of 920 vaccine recipients administered with Pfizer shots in three sites.
These included some 300 children with comorbidities inoculated at Riverside College as well as 300 at the SMX Convention Center and 320 at Ayala Malls Capitol Central from the general pediatric population.
“The kids are setting the example. We noted that parents, who are unvaccinated, consequently, got jabbed because they were accompanying their minor children to the vaccination sites,” Sorongon said.
During the launch of the pediatric vaccination on Oct. 29, a total of 266 minors with comorbidities were inoculated. (PNA)
