Bicol gets more vaccines for medical frontliners | Inquirer News

Bicol gets more vaccines for medical frontliners

/ 02:10 PM April 15, 2021

LEGAZPI CITY –– Bicol received on Thursday the fourth batch of anti-COVID vaccines composed of 20,400 vials of the CoronaVac to inoculate more medical frontliners in the region, the Department of Health (DOH) here said.

The vaccines, manufactured by the Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech Ltd., were packed in 17 boxes containing 1,200 vials per box. They arrived at the Legazpi Domestic Airport aboard a Philippine Airlines commercial flight from Manila at 9:47 a.m.

The vaccines were immediately brought to the DOH storage facility in this city for inventory and distribution to the six Bicol provinces, said DOH Bicol public affairs chief Noemi Bron.

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The new vaccine allocation would be for the first and second doses of the medical frontliners, as follows: Masbate with 5,280 vials, Camarines Sur with 4,920, Sorsogon – 3,900, Albay – 2,960, Catanduanes -1,900, and Camarines Norte – 1,440.

As of the latest count, the region has received 48,000 single-dose vials of Sinovacs and 22,000 doses of the British manufactured AstraZeneca. INQ

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