Bacolod to receive 5,850 doses of Pfizer vaccine

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga

Bacolod City Administrator Em Ang said yesterday that the city is expected to receive 5,850 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine soon.

City Administrator Em Ang (rightmost) and Dr. Chris Sorongon (left), executive director and medical deputy, respectively, of the Emergency Operations Center-Task Force of Bacolod City, with the joint team from the Department of Health and the Food and Drug Administration in Western Visayas. The government inspectors checked the ultralow temperature freezers and other equipment in the city’s cold chain facility last June 23, 2021 in preparation for the arrival of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. (Em Ang photo/PNA)

Ang made the statement after meeting with officials from the Department of Health (DOH) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who came to the city in order to inspect the city’s ultra low freezers (ULFs) and Cold Room facilities.

Ang said the city’s ULFs are capable of storing 40,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines at a temperature of -70 to -80 degrees celsius.

The city also now has 32 freezers capable of maintaining a temperature of -25 to -30 degrees celsius which could be used for storing AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, and Moderna vaccines.

The ULFs are placed right beside the city’s cold storage facility which also houses the Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines./DGB, WDJ

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