BACOLOD CITY: The provincial government of Negros Occidental had been assured by the national government of 3 million doses of vaccine for 70 percent of its population or 1.5 million residents, lawyer Rayfrando Diaz, provincial administrator said.

Diaz said in accordance to the advice of Provincial Consultant former Rep. Alfredo Benitez and reiterated by the Department of Health Western Visayas, 117,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine would arrive in the country by the second week of February.