Dr. Chris Sorongon, deputy for medical data and analysis of EOC, said the City Government earlier received only 10,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines from the Department of Health (DOH) and they already administered 5,000 doses for children five to 11 years old.
Sorongon said the remaining 5,000 doses of vaccines are intended for the second dose of this age group.
“Bacolod City has exceeded its target and we will resume the vaccination for this age group once we have the supply of Pfizer vaccines from the national government,” he added.
Sorongon said that from February 14 to 23, a total of 5,500 children aged five to 11 in Bacolod City have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
Only Pfizer has been issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for pediatric vaccination and they are waiting for the delivery of the second batch of the vaccines from the DOH, which is expected to be delivered in the second quarter of 2022.
Sorongon said parents should continue to register their children online because once they have the vaccine, they will make an announcement to resume the vaccination in the barangays, malls and hospitals.
On the target population data from DOH-Western Visayas, Bacolod City has a total of 80,000 children aged five to 11.
Of the figures, the city was given a target of 45,000 children to be inoculated against Covid-19.