BACOLOD CITY –– The city government of Bacolod urged residents to register for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination.
City Administrator Em Ang said registration could be done in barangays or through an online facility that the city government is setting up.
“We are starting to register residents for the mass vaccination that will begin as soon as the vaccines arrive,” she said, reiterating that the city hoped to inoculate 80 percent of its population to reach the herd immunity level.
Bacolod is expected to get vaccines from the national government.
The 650,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines purchased by the Bacolod City government would arrive in the second semester of this year, Ang said.
The AstraZeneca vaccines will cover 325,000 Bacolod residents.