Iloilo City says ready to do up to 15,000 vaccinations daily with steady supply

ILOILO CITY Mayor Jerry P. Treñas said the local government has been administering up to 7,500 coronavirus vaccines daily and is ready to “at least double” that capacity once there is a steady supply from the national government.

“Once we have steady supply of vaccines, we can even increase the numbers or at the very least double it,” he said in a statement following the delivery of an additional 50,000 doses of the Sinovac brand on June 30.

The mayor noted that apart from workers in the medical sector, various sectors have been assisting in the inoculation program, including the police, city hall employees, and village officials.

The city, which has a population of nearly half a million and serves as a provincial and regional center, has seen a surge in coronavirus cases in the past weeks. Mr. Treñas has been appealing to the national government to give the city more vaccine allocation.