Data source: Food and Drug Administration | Pubmat: Manila Bulletin Five months since the country's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination drive started, more than 24 million vaccine doses have already been administered. The Philippines' COVID-19 vaccination drive started last March 1,...
Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC) is interested in partnering with to other vaccine manufacturers globally to locally produce a COVID-19 vaccine as well as for other diseases since the Philippines has yet to produce a single vaccine of its own. “You know, if you're at it anyway, you...
Shipment and delivery of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) vaccines from India could begin once the Philippines has completed all the regulatory requirements, Philippine Ambassador to India Ramon Bagatsing Jr. said Monday. “We hope the requirements can be expedited by the regulatory authorities...
Biotech Farms, Inc. is investing P1.33 billion to expand its annual hogs production capacity by 48 percent to help address the huge shortage of meat products in the country caused by the African Swine Flu on local piggery farms. The Board of Investments has already approved the grant of tax...
Six Philippine pharmaceutical firms are planning to venture into local vaccine manufacturing, Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon M. Lopez revealed. At the President Duterte’s “Kumusta Na Po Mahal Kong Kababayan” broadcast Wednesday (March 24) night to update Filipinos on COVID-19...
Glovax Biotech, a Filipino-owned vaccine distributor and proponent of the P7-billion vaccine manufacturing venture, is looking to supply 40 million doses of next generation COVID-19 vaccines from Korea 50 percent cheaper than what is currently being offered by vaccine producers. Glovax Biotech...
The Department of Trade and Industry through the Board of Investments (BOI) is exploring a P7-billion investment lead purportedly for a vaccine production project in the Philippines between a local pharma distributor company and LG, a leading Korean chaebol engaged largely in the electronics...
Raising more than $34 million to commercialize this service Did you know that cancer of the ovary, which ranks 5th among females in the Philippines, is the most lethal gynecologic cancer? One of the reasons why ovarian cancer is very deadly is because some of its late-stage symptoms like...
The use of crop biotechnology has reduced pesticide use associated with environmental impact and is beneficial for agricultural biodiversity, a UK-based agricultural economist and scientists from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) said. During an online technical forum organized by...
