THE Navotas City government has opened a Covid-19 vaccine cold room to stock vaccines for pediatric immunization, Mayor John Rey Tiangco said on Tuesday.

The cold room at the first floor of the Chinese Filipino Business Club Inc. Vocational Training Center in Barangay North Bay Boulevard

South Dagat-dagatan will store Covid-19 vaccines, Tiangco said.

The local government said it has biorefrigerators, ultra-low temperature freezers that can reach -86 degree Celsius and has single insulation transport coolers.

“The refrigerator is used to safely keep vaccine diluents, while the freezers can store around 35,000 vials of sensitive and extremely cold temperature-dependent vaccines,” the city chief executive said.

Tiangco also led other key officials at the groundbreaking of additional public school buildings in the city.

Navotas National High School and Daanghari Elementary School will soon have new four-story school buildings with eight classrooms, he said.

Also, the Tangos Elementary School 1 will also have a four-story building with 12 classrooms.

“Nine more school buildings are up for construction this year. We hope for the timely completion of these projects so we could accommodate more students and avoid shifting classes,” Tiangco said.

In March this year, Navotas inaugurated 11 public school buildings with a total of 128 classrooms.