Around four million doses of vaccines against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is expected to arrive in the country from the COVAX facility next month. The latest batch of AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrived in the Philippines through the COVAX facility on May 8, 2021. (Photo from the National Task...
Vice President Leni Robredo has reminded the government to enforce the rules set by the World Health Organization (WHO)-led COVAX facility not only to Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, but to other coronavirus vaccines it donated as well. VP Leni Robredo (Jansen Romero/Manila Bulletin) Robredo emphasized...
The World Health Organization (WHO) urged the Philippine government anew to follow the prioritization list on who gets the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine first as to maximize its impacts on the pandemic. World Health Organization Representative to the Philippines Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe...
President Duterte has appealed anew for equitable global access to coronavirus vaccines, saying no country can regain growth until everyone can overcome the pandemic. President Rodrigo Duterte shows a vial of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine during the arrival of the first shipment of the...
G7 and EU nations can afford to donate more than 150 million vaccines to countries in need without compromising their own objectives, UNICEF said Monday. Workers load boxes of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines, part of the the Covax programme, which aims to ensure equitable access to COVID-19...
Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said the government cannot just use AstraZeneca coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines on essential workers listed under the A4 priority group as it breaches the condition set by the COVAX Facility. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO / MANILA...
A huge batch of Pfizer vaccines--over two million according to Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr.--is coming to the Philippines later this month. The first batch of Pfizer vaccines in the Philippines arrived on May 10, 2021. (Photo from Bureau of Customs) Galvez, National Task Force (NTF) Against...
The United States on Monday welcomed the successful delivery of 193,050 doses of the US-made Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the Philippines. The 193,050 doses of the US-made Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines being unloaded at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Monday night. (U.S....
Now the country has more coronavirus vaccine supply, Vice President Leni Robredo thinks it could be time for her to get vaccinated. VP Leni Robredo (OVP photo) Robredo herself will fall under the A3 category, or persons with comorbidities, since she is hypertensive, but she refused to get the...
The government's efforts to vaccine as many Filipinos against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) appeared to be on the right track as more vaccines continue to arrive, the latest was the first batch of donated Pfizer vaccines from the Covax facility which will be delivered on Monday night, May 10....
The United Nations (UN) in the Philippines and the United States Embassy in Manila welcomed the delivery of more than two million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to the Philippines under the COVAX facility, the international partnership established to ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19...
The latest batch of coronavirus vaccines delivered to the Philippines through the COVAX facility represented a "lifeline" to Filipinos seeking relief from the pandemic, according to a United Nations (UN) official. The latest batch of AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrived in the Philippines through the...
