BACOLOD CITY—At least 3,200 doses of CoronaVac, the vaccine made by Chinese company Sinovac, arrived here on Friday (March 5).
“We are on the road to deliverance,” said Mayor Evelio Leonardia as the city’s first vaccines were injected into five doctors and a nurse.
He said he considered the arrival of the vaccines as the start of a giant leap to reach herd immunity against SARS Cov2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Herd immunity happens when a large part of the population of an area is immune.
“It is significant that the first COVID-19 case and the first vaccination against the virus in Western Visayas happened in Bacolo…
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