Medical frontliners, according to city officials, will be given main priority.
The 6,300 doses was part of the 600,000 initial doses donated by China to the government.
“This is historic,” Mayor Evelio Leonardia said, adding that the first vaccination in Western Visayas happened here and the first COVID-19 case in the region was also recorded in this city.
Leonardia said that like the others who were also clobbered by COVID-19, during those rough times, the city was also one of the first to recover. “This makes today’s event more significant and meaningful,” the Bacolod mayor said.
Leonardia considers the vaccines as a light at the end of the tunnel. “We are still inside the tunnel but what is important is that we’re slowly moving towards the end of the tunnel through the vaccines as our light,” he added.
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